Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the morals that Israel would eventually get in the Torah, and to teach those same principles to their people. I'd also want to make sure they worship no other god but the Most High.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

If you hate me it is because I have morals.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver.  You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.