Moral Quotes · Page 38

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

— Samuel Adams

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

— Jim Mattis

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

— Anonymous

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.

— Bernie Sanders

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

— Henry David Thoreau

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

— George Gilder

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

— Audrey Hepburn

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

— Jesse Jackson

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

— Grace Paley

“Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.”

— Andrew Klavan

Do what you love, live for what you believe, and die protecting it. Never accept anything less than the very best Success…

— Jamie Timbre

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And…

— James Jeffrey Roche

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,…

— Henry David Thoreau

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No…

— Douglas Coupland

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early…

— Samuel Adams

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical,…

— Bill Maher

Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to…

— Eric Metaxas

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

— Ray Bradbury

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will…

— Bayard Rustin

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in…

— Don Cupitt

[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm,…

— Myrna Blyth

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power,…

— James McCosh

I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of…

— Steve Almond

Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There…

— Mark Durie

It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or…

— Rebecca Goldstein

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let…

— Frances Wright

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see…

— Michael Haneke

Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time

— Condoleezza Rice

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

— Aristotle

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

— Keith Murray

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

— G. Stanley Hall

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

— Hillary Clinton

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

— Margaret Atwood

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

— Sri Aurobindo

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens