Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

A person is praiseworthy for a right action to the extent that her action manifests, and is rationalized by, good will, that is, concern for the right and the good, not necessarily under the description "right" or "good". A person is blameworthy for a wrong action to the extent that her action manifests, and is rationalized by, ill will - concern for the wrong and bad, also de re - or moral indifference - lack or deficiency of good will.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.