Quotes about moral
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 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 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.
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 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 guides
Intelligence is the only moral guide. Robert Green Ingersoll
moral climate-change
It's a moral question. Rowan Williams
morale inspirational-office work-humor
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Stephen Hawking
morality danger accepting
Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality. Stanislaw Lem
morality form judaism
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. Sigmund Freud
moral ifs
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. Reinhold Niebuhr
moral sponsors playfulness
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. Susan Sontag
moral-behavior life-happens gray-area
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens. Scott Adams
morality behavior profit
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. Stephen Young
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 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