Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Good morals lead to good laws.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

Happiness is a moral obligation

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.