Quotes about moral
moral
I'll never go against my morals. Leona Lewis
moral easy ifs
Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient. Laurell K. Hamilton
morality corruption
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality. Lord Acton
morality johnson rough
Rough Johnson, the great moralist. Lord Byron
moral-growth names religion
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. Mahatma Gandhi
moral individual neat
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. Josh Billings
moral-development creative excellence
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition. Paul Kurtz
morality ethics guides
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. Madame de Stael
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Gilbert K. Chesterton
morality states forbidden
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
moral ifs
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. Reinhold Niebuhr
moral pretension destructive
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. Mary Douglas
moral-high-ground leader president
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. Marty Meehan
moral ethics currents
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity. Martin Buber
moral spirit rebellion
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. Victor Hugo
morality
Morality is truth in full bloom.
moral privacy decency
Morals are private. Decency is public. Rita Mae Brown
moral-absolutism spheres physics
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. Thomas Cochrane
moral problem
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem. Saul Alinsky
moral-growth names people
Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity. Robert Wright
moral judgment whole
There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished. Sandra Bernhard
moral easy perfectionist
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. Robert D. Kaplan
moral-high-ground iraq borders
We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair. Tucker Carlson
morality produce immorality
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality. Tullian Tchividjian
moral guides
Intelligence is the only moral guide. Robert Green Ingersoll
moral climate-change
It's a moral question. Rowan Williams
moral psycho kind
Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There's no moral taint attached to that. Warren Buffett
morality study social
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. Vincent Van Gogh
moral duty obligation
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
moral manners courtesy
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. William Cowper
moral argument poet
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Thomas Hardy
morality ridiculous fit
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas B. Macaulay
moral instinct duty
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses. Thomas Jefferson