Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the morals that Israel would eventually get in the Torah, and to teach those same principles to their people. I'd also want to make sure they worship no other god but the Most High.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

If you hate me it is because I have morals.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.