Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.