Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

If you hate me it is because I have morals.

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver.  You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.