Moral Quotes · Page 105

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war;…

— Richard Rorty

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

— Anonymous

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

— Russell Baker

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

— Ayn Rand

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

— Ayn Rand

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

— Lynn Nottage

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in…

— Robert Wright

I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they…

— Alex Gibney

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many…

— Fanny Fern

Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other…

— Ravi Zacharias

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the…

— Václav Havel

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand…

— Joseph Crowley

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of…

— G. Edward Griffin

I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral…

— Nomy Arpaly

People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but…

— Lupe Fiasco

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is…

— R. C. Sproul

Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.…

— Dennis McKinsey

[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than…

— James David Barber

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a…

— Ken Wilber

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my…

— Thomas Jefferson

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the…

— Wendell Phillips

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

— Joel Bakan

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control…

— Anonymous

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

— Andrew Mitchell

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the…

— Robert Muller

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

— Jonathan Haidt

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is…

— Rita Mae Brown

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that…

— Allen W. Wood

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake,…

— Confucius

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or…

— Harold Ramis

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer…

— Li Hongzhi

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

— Pearl S. Buck

“If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?”

— K.L. Toth

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself…

— Alexander McCall Smith