Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But then people distort it and use it as an excuse to be a bully. It's sad, but that's the way it's worked for a several thousand years now.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.