Moral Quotes · Page 61

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

— Logan Lerman

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle";…

— Aleister Crowley

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

— Joseph Addison

“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”

— Nancy Kress

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance…

— Susan Sontag

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised…

— Samuel Smiles

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we…

— Peter Kreeft

I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all…

— Kristen Stewart

The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue…

— Stephen Schneider

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the…

— Arthur Hertzberg

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes…

— Paul Valery

And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to…

— Ezra Levant

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most…

— James Branch Cabell

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and…

— Georg Simmel

From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly…

— Edward Anthony Spitzka

It is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every…

— Pope John Paul II

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is…

— Sydney J. Harris

Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,…

— Max Muller

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

— Wendell Berry

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

— Madonna Ciccone

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

— Asghar Farhadi

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

— Thomas Jefferson

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

— Erich Fromm

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

— Keith O'Brien

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more…

— Morgan Brittany

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and…

— Tim Ryan

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

— Leon Wieseltier

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral,…

— R. D. Laing