Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

States are not moral agents.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

Structurally I don't see a fundamental difference between what we may reasonably expect of police and doctors - though obviously the fact that doctors are generally pursuing life-saving activities and police may be engaged in life-threatening activities may lead to differences in how we construe the moral limits to their roles.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or anyone can lay down that will tell you what your dharma is.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.