Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural cycle; we're in a similar time of upheaval now in the sense that the nation is divided upon itself, and some of the present schisms appear both terrifying and permanent. It's true that unless we learn from the past, we're condemned to repeat it.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.