Moral Quotes · Page 82

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at…

— Mother Teresa

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

— George Bernard Shaw

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral…

— Amy Chua

“Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.”

— Ayn Rand

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits…

— Tzipi Livni

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring,…

— Roger Kimball

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his…

— Thomas Paine

I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If…

— Tupac Shakur

I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,…

— Philippe Pinel

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on…

— A. N. Wilson

For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the…

— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that…

— Charles Koch

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has…

— Ayn Rand

When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into…

— Brian Molko

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and…

— Anonymous

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal…

— Francis Galton

By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his…

— Adolf Hitler

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity…

— John Dewey

As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves…

— Thomas Huxley

The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,…

— Leon V. DePoncins

An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But…

— Albert Einstein

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

— Peter Kreeft

I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his…

— Frederic Bastiat

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

— Anonymous

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will…

— Fran Lebowitz

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

— Jane Addams

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

— Ruth Gordon

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education…

— Bobby Scott

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

— Steven Pinker

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

— Philip James Bailey

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

— Phil Angelides

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

— Halford Luccock

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

— Chinua Achebe