Moral Quotes
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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
— Rocco Buttiglione
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
— John Cusack
We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
— Jesse Jackson
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
— Augustus Hare
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
— Francis Bacon
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
— Eliza Lynn Linton
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
— Walter Kirn
I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
— David Attenborough
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
— Clarence Darrow
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
— Henry Rollins
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
— Dennis Prager
Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.
— Nancy Pearcey
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
— William Gurnall
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
— J.K. Rowling
To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
— Stephen Covey
We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.
— Billy Graham
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatnessCortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Edwin Percy Whipple
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
— Susanna Moodie
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
— William Hurrell Mallock
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.
— Edmund Burke
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.
— Henry David Thoreau
The test of moral ideas is moral results.
— Morton Blackwell
Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.
— Charlaine Harris
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.
— Hermann Goring
I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.
— Melky Cabrera
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...
— Patrick O'Brian
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.
— Joe Lieberman
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth
— Susan B. Anthony
Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
— Ralph Nader
It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.
— Stephanie S. Tolan
Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.
— Christopher Hitchens
Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.
— Georg Simmel
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.
— Dinesh D'Souza
It (Lewinskygate) has ... compromised his moral authority
— Joe Lieberman
What is moral is what you feel good after.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
— Jesse Jackson
What I like best is a good story with a moral.
— Oscar Micheaux
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
— George Santayana
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
— H.G.Wells
If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
— Chuck Klosterman
It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions
— Stephanie Kaza
What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature
— Isaac Marion
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.
— Guy Wetmore Carryl
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
— Damian Lewis
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
— Susan Sontag
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
— Sheldon Jackson
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
— Norman Borlaug
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
— James Russell Lowell
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
— H.L. Mencken
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
— John Hurt
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
— Richard G. Scott
If you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.
— Gary L. Thomas
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
— Robert M. Hutchins
So the moral of the storyis that God hates vegetarians. — Cory O'Brien
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
— Howard Zinn
I think I am a moral man.
— Gary Condit
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
— Honore De Balzac
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
— Plato
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
