Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in the Judeo-Christian tradition. I think that is roughly, not unerringly, the outline of what I would call natural law.There must be some moral values underlying any civilization; that's my guide.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Cowards can never be moral.

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

Custom alone regulates morals.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

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