Moral Quotes · Page 32

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

— George Weigel

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

— Elbert Hubbard

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

— Lou Reed

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.

— Claire Denis

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,…

— Ameen Rihani

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

— Price Pritchett

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make…

— Khaled Hosseini

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

— Tim McIlrath

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a…

— Tim Crane

We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.

— Lyndon LaRouche

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

— David Grann

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because…

— Junior Seau

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was…

— Annie Besant

No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin…

— Peter Kreeft

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep…

— Vance Havner

Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly…

— Louis Berkhof

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human…

— Terry Eagleton

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral…

— Lewis Carroll

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far…

— Felix Adler

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of…

— Frans de Waal

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

Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by…

— Richard John Neuhaus

All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we…

— John Lennox

But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel.…

— William Lane Craig

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be…

— Swami Vivekananda

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,…

— Aristotle

The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he…

— David Denby

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

— Christopher Hitchens

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

— Bill Gates

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

— Nicole Krauss

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

— B. C. Forbes

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

— John Stuart Mill