Moral Quotes · Page 47

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

— Hugh Grant

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

— Theodore Sturgeon

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

— James Russell Lowell

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

— Richard H. Davis

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

— Anthony Burgess

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

— W. G. Sebald

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

— Pascal Boyer

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the…

— George McGovern

“A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

— Alan Bennett

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

— Johan Huizinga

“The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today”

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...

— Thomas Merton

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

— Tom Lehrer

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral…

— Sissela Bok

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead…

— David Hayden

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,…

— Haruki Murakami

Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and…

— Robert Bridges

It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,…

— Tim O'Brien

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves…

— Jaron Lanier

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the…

— Gouverneur Morris

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize…

— Dick Gephardt

It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from…

— Judith Butler

Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book…

— Nomy Arpaly

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a…

— Israel Kirzner

While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted…

— Edward Snowden

“Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that…

— David G. McAfee

We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are…

— Desmond Tutu

I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve…

— Angelina Jolie

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really…

— Jodi Picoult

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

— Stendhal

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

— Herbert Hoover

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

— Antonia Fraser

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. -The Duchess

— Alice In Wonderland

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

— Anonymous