Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Though it's hard to be completely certain about things like this, I have a suspicion that only someone with deep freedom (one who makes decisions for reasons that are his own) and who's also a moral being (can experience goodness) can have a meaningful friendship with God. If friendship with God and sharing in His happiness are good things (and it seems they are), then making a creature who could enjoy these things is also a good thing, even if it comes with a liability. There's a risk.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.