Moral Quotes

Intelligence is a moral category.

— Theodor Adorno

First the grub, then the morals.

— Bertolt Brecht

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Eats first, morals after.

— Bertolt Brecht

Bad company ruins good morals.

— Paul the Apostle

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.

— Georg Simmel

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

— Rudyard Kipling

Democracy needs a moral compass.

— Jill Stein

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

— Geraldine Brooks

Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

— Jonathan Bowden

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

— George Bernard Shaw

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

— James Anthony Froude

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

— Deepak Chopra

“Plausible deniability is not a moral code,”

— Dylan James Quarles

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

— Thomas Chalmers

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

— Patrick Swift

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to…

— Elihu Root

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and…

— Caroline Leavitt

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

— Harry Blamires

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most…

— Antoine Rivarol

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more…

— William Howard Taft

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a…

— Julia Glass

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

— Ayn Rand

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm…

— Taryn Manning

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns.…

— Clarence Darrow

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable…

— Star Parker

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR…

— Daniel Webster

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by…

— Wendell Berry

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all…

— Adam Weishaupt

“Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the…

— Emily Thorne

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far…

— John Stuart Mill

It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is…

— Alphonsus Rodriguez

Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good…

— Deborah Needleman