Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Working out that I am not Mizuko has been an important step towards feeling better. If I have hit on a moral, it is this: the body is our natural barrier. There were lines I should not have crossed, and I did so without permission. I was looking always for correspondences, but meaning is found through difference.

Working in dysfunctional companies was an excruciating experience.

Your soul is different than your body. the soul is the real identity. you keep on believing in your name as your identity but the eternal truth is that your soul is your real identity. Just like you discard your clothes to get new one; you need to leave your one incarnation to get another. Don't get limited by your only birth. Your soul is ageless and immortal.

You are a cesspit if moral filth.

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

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 high beauty has a moral element in it.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.