Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

There aren't any moral victories.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.