Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but you're never going to see that on a day-to-day basis. People fluctuate. To me, that was the most specific way to put it, the best way to be like, "I listen to this music, but it's the most violent music on the planet." But I like it, and to make up for it, I don't say the cuss words. That's how I get away with it.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Photons have neither morals nor visas.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Politics have no relation to morals.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.