Moral Quotes · Page 107

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

— Mitt Romney

Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to…

— Yaron Brook

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature…

— Allen W. Wood

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in…

— Marjorie Grene

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

— Jimmy Carter

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

— Rocco Buttiglione

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral…

— Stanley Hauerwas

If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by…

— J. Spencer Kinard

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I…

— Theodore Parker

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment…

— Philip Zimbardo

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own…

— Kenzaburo Oe

As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not…

— June Jordan

Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign…

— Mark Shields

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as…

— Frederick Douglass

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground…

— Martin Luther

Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to…

— Ayn Rand

One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -…

— Fady Joudah

I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now…

— Thomas Merton

Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as…

— Thomas Pogge

Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does…

— Philip Kapleau

Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question…

— Anthony Bourdain

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to…

— Paul Ryan

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

— Margaret Atwood

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to…

— Noam Chomsky

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

— Edward Abbey

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where…

— Scott Adams

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

— Michael Biehn

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

— Emily Giffin

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

— Joseph Joubert

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens…

— Lynn Coady

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

— James Henry Breasted

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

— Henry David Thoreau

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage…

— Margaret Heffernan

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors…

— Thomas Jefferson

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

— Josh Billings