Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.