Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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

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

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

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

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

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

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.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.