Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

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

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 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

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

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

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

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.

[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 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 man's religion ever survives his morals.

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.

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

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

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

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

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

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 a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

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

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

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 all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people.

Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

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.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

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