Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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.

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.

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?

Cowards can never be moral.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

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

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Custom alone regulates morals.

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

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

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

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

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

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

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

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 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.

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

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.