Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in terms of individual rights. American history has consisted of swings back and forth between rights talk on the one hand and talk of duties, responsibilities, and the common good on the other hand. Recent decades have seen a big swing toward rights, and conceived in very individualistic terms, which hasn't always been the case even with rights.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

Never choose the easy path. Choose the one that has morals

[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

On devient moral de'  s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's also a lack of morals - it's one affair after the other. A system like that cannot be successful.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.