Quotes about moral
moral-fiber people political
Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution. Neal A. Maxwell
moral moral-values values
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. Marian Wright Edelman
moral advertising skip
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. Nicholas Johnson
moral economic approach
Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values. Nelson Mandela
moral-high-ground two hatred
That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground Neil Strauss
moral authority unesco
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority. Lakhdar Brahimi
moral ethics offensive
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. Oscar Wilde
moral action ethical
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. Louis Kronenberger
morality ethics enjoy
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. Mark Twain
moral enough pleasure
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. Mario Vargas Llosa
moral teach
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
moral judgment good-things
I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from. Paul Bloom
morality ethics indifference
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. Marya Mannes
moral philosopher poet
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. Mary Wortley Montagu
morality behavior reason
... the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ... Mary Wollstonecraft
moral cigar five
I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.
moral morality immoral
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. Friedrich Nietzsche
moral kind outlook
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook. Norman Douglas
moral-of-the-story stories moral
And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke
moral-fiber way evolution-of-man
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. Terry Pratchett
moral
To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being. Simone de Beauvoir
morality fit british
There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. Stephen Fry
morality linked
Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it. Randy Wayne White
moral found duty
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. Thomas Jefferson
moral-absolutism practice political
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life. Richard Hofstadter
moral guidance authority
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. Walter Lippmann
moral persons
I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person Voltaire
moral subtle sentimentality
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality. Woodrow Wilson
moral-leadership court ability
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. William O. Douglas