Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

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.

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.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

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.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

On devient moral de'  s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

Optimism is the true moral courage

Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.