Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Politics have no relation to morals.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But then people distort it and use it as an excuse to be a bully. It's sad, but that's the way it's worked for a several thousand years now.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.