Moral Quotes · Page 21

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

— William Davenant

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

— Richard Dawkins

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

— Mark Twain

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

— Emile M. Cioran

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

— Thomas Carlyle

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

— Jonathan Haidt

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,…

— Glen Cook

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

— Peggy Noonan

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

— Alex Epstein

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

— Martin Luther

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and…

— Marisa Tomei

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came…

— Anonymous

To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and…

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral…

— Max Stirner

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in…

— George Pataki

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private…

— Michel de Montaigne

If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations,…

— African Spir

If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to…

— Billy Graham

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more…

— Paul Auster

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt,…

— Francis Schaeffer

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right…

— Henry David Thoreau

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…

— David Bentley Hart

If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people…

— Laozi

One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of…

— David B. Haight

In all humility and sincerity we must admit a power higher than ourselves from whom is derived a positive moral code that…

— Delbert L. Stapley

The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes…

— Marshall McLuhan

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy…

— Aleister Crowley

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

— Immanuel Kant

“It’s the moral fabric that lends to behavioural pattern.”

— BS Murthy

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

— Will Durant

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

— Michel Sidibe

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.

— Alex Borstein

Horror... and moral terror... are your friends.

— Marlon Brando

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

— Oscar Micheaux

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

— Henry David Thoreau