Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The problem is that that line has gotten blurred and that our moral standard seems to be "if everybody else is doing it, it's okay". That's not good enough for me.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

Cowards can never be moral.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Custom alone regulates morals.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

Do not be a magician - be magic!

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.

Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?

Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book you borrowed, that implies, roughly, that your doing so depends on your wanting to do so: if you want to bring me the book, you will. This is not the case if you are stuck at some airport due to a snowstorm, far away from me. This, however, is not the same as "ought" implying a metaphysical "can".

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement.  So it is with morals and patriotism.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide