Moral Quotes · Page 109

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this…

— Rose Macaulay

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing…

— Naomi Oreskes

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

— James Hansen

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.”

— Aristotle

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it,…

— Freya Stark

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

— Angelina Jolie

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

— Augustus Hare

“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as…

— Abhijit Naskar

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,…

— Tim O'Brien

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,…

— Haruki Murakami

Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and…

— Robert Bridges

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead…

— David Hayden

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would…

— Bill Nye

Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually…

— Carl Jung

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a…

— Aldous Huxley

But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to…

— David Hume

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.…

— Joseph Brodsky

Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change…

— Milton Friedman

Indonesia has already been governed for too long by sclerotic uncles who have sold their nation off to foreign companies and governments.…

— Andre Vltchek

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter…

— Francis Grund

I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained…

— Brittany Snow

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

— Stephen Batchelor

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

— Mark Twain

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease…

— Bertrand Russell

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

— Ludwig von Mises

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,…

— Mark Twain

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

— Edmond de Goncourt

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the…

— Samuel Adams

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

— Robertson Davies

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

— Bill Courtney

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

— David Novak

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is…

— H. L. Mencken

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are…

— Jacques Barzun