Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with as it really is. At the same time, he had a striking moral intelligence, and a confidence in the working of his own mind and conscience.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature a good bit, of course, but a bit only in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

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

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

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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