Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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

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

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 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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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

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 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.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

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

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The measure  of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.