Moral Quotes · Page 100

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

— Manfred Rommel

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

— Tony Benn

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that…

— Frederic Bastiat

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton…

— Marlene Zuk

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human…

— Francis George

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country…

— Lois Capps

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution…

— Ben Shapiro

My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a…

— Al Gore

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members…

— Walter E. Williams

In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply…

— John Bradshaw

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever…

— Mark Twain

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:…

— Immanuel Kant

The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the…

— Pope Francis

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days… Such…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who…

— Don Feder

Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly…

— Azar Nafisi

To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet…

— Lynn Margulis

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So…

— Elie Wiesel

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

— Anonymous

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

— Kendrick Lamar

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

— Albert Camus

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is…

— Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea…

— Madame de Stael

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still…

— Frans de Waal

“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere…

— Albert Camus

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

— Anthony Burgess

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide…

— Ayn Rand

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous