Moral Quotes · Page 109

“God intends each individual to choose his own moral destiny rather than be constrained by the legacy of his parents.”

— SparkNotes

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

— Maxine Greene

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

— Ed Case

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

— Robert Sean Leonard

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

— Anna Lindh

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

— Michael Josephson

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

— Paul Bloom

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at…

— Milan Kundera

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous…

— Stephen J. Cannell

Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or…

— Cass Sunstein

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent…

— William James

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,…

— Wendell Berry

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for…

— Robert E. Lee

One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have…

— King Hussein I

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair…

— Michael Josephson

At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation…

— Ronald Reagan

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the…

— Jean Piaget

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is…

— Sydney J. Harris

Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,…

— Max Muller

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in…

— Edmund Burke

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within…

— David Clennon

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything…

— John Steinbeck

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

— Al Gore

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

— Joseph Sobran

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

— Confucius

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

— Jack Valenti

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them…

— Suzanne La Follette

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

— Rudolf Steiner

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern…

— Harry S. Truman

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

— Dennis Prager

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

— Paul Bloom

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned…

— George Bernard Shaw