Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed at undermining what have been traditionally defined as right and wrong and moral and immoral, that's been turned upside down, and it's not changing. Yet.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

... moral evil is its own curse.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.