The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us…

— Robert McCracken

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a…

— Chris Chibnall

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than…

— Sam Levenson

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

— J. B. Pritzker

“Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.”

— Bryant McGill

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So…

— Arthur Helps

“it’s easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard…

— Terry Goodkind

The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a…

— Wangari Maathai

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be…

— Nikolai Gogol

“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.”

— Stan Goff

The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness,…

— Carl Jung

I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to.

— Gina Haspel

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

— Herbert Spencer