Moral Quotes · Page 15

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

— John Guare

The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

— Anonymous

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

— Vittorio De Sica

“Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.”

— Brent Weeks

“Ketidakjujuran adalah isyarat ketidakbebasan hati”

— Goenawan Mohamad

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

— Denis Diderot

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

— Ellen G. White

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

— Howard Dean

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

— Barbara Tuchman

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

— Starhawk

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

— William Butler Yeats

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences,

— Muqtada al Sadr

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

— Eugene McCarthy

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through.…

— John Updike

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and…

— Steven Pinker

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man…

— Joseph Conrad

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard…

— Felix Adler

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior…

— Henry Louis Gates

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence…

— Pope Benedict XVI

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining…

— Ferdinand Foch

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses…

— Malcolm Lowry

I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not…

— Ayn Rand

Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring…

— Ellen G. White

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged…

— Cate Blanchett

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will?…

— Daniel Dennett

As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels…

— Michio Kaku

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot…

— Immanuel Kant

Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it…

— Angelina Grimke

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral…

— James MacGregor Burns

“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral…

— Robert B. Louden

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

— Anonymous

Business is the real test of the moral life.

— Ted Malloch

“As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.”

— Marcel Proust

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

— Marian Hooper Adams

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

— William Penn

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

— Ayn Rand