Moral Quotes · Page 108

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

— Michael Moore

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and…

— Patrick Henry

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

— Penn Jillette

“Tristan would be the first to admit he had very few moral principles, but there was one he never broke: he never…

— Alessandra Hazard

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because…

— James Joyce

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

— Dave Ramsey

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

— Arthur Miller

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for…

— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near…

— Lewis Carroll

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves…

— David Hasselhoff

We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;…

— Edward Everett

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed…

— Joan Didion

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus…

— Pope Francis

The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers'…

— Mario Savio

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral…

— John Wooden

A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs…

— Frosty Wooldridge

Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same…

— George W. Bush

I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a…

— Guenter Lewy

“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself…

— James Baldwin

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines…

— Michael Lerner

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

— Blake Bailey

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and…

— Daniel Gilbert

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs…

— Tryon Edwards

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its…

— Anne Rice

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

— Jonathan Haidt

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

— J. B. Pritzker

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

— Tom Ford

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is…

— Ernest Hemingway

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

— Peter Kreeft

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

— Robert Stacy McCain

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold…

— Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

— Nelson Mandela

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

— Nicholas Sparks

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

— Harry Browne