In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Few people can truly excel at occupations about which they entertain moral reservations.” — Christy Wright Copy Share Image
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men.… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become… — Elisabeth Murdoch Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls. — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher. — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically. — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values. — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
