Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.

Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.