Moral Quotes · Page 49

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

— Edward Tufte

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

— Charles Colson

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

— Karl Kraus

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

— Stephanie Mills

“Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?”

— Arundhati Roy

My morals went when the president got oral.

— Eminem

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

— George W. Bush

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Barbara Tuchman

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply…

— Frank Minis Johnson

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only…

— Bertrand Russell

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

— Aldous Huxley

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this…

— Isadora Duncan

I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set…

— Ken MacLeod

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue…

— Aristotle

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that…

— Malcolm X

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would…

— Bill Nye

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well…

— Edward Gibbon

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own…

— Kenzaburo Oe

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment…

— Philip Zimbardo

“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self…

— Awdhesh Singh

The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!…

— Ann Coulter

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral…

— Ellen Willis

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The…

— Pope Francis

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the…

— Martin Filler

The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely…

— Tariq Ramadan

The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the…

— Pat Robertson

I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy…

— Jason Chaffetz

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.”

— Gregory Maguire

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

— Henry David Thoreau

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

— Hosea Ballou

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

— Soren Kierkegaard

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

— Gary L. Francione

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

— Dana Goldstein

“The police do a great job of shafting the general public.”

— Steven Magee