Moral Quotes · Page 165

War makes its own morals.

— Margaret Bourke-White

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for…

— Aristotle

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

— James Bovard

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to…

— Sigmund Freud

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I…

— Taylor Swift

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once…

— Alistair Cooke

Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where…

— Edmund White

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions…

— David Hume

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

— Salman Rushdie

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.…

— William Bernhardt

I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying…

— Robert Polidori

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

— Mary Parker Follett

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich…

— Ben Shapiro

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed…

— Thomas Reid

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

— Johann Baptist Metz

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

— Ezra Taft Benson

In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was…

— John Kleinig

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

— Muhammad Iqbal

The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests…

— Stephen Jay Gould

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

— Maria Edgeworth

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification…

— John L. Lewis

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility…

— Dennis Banks

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

— David Foster Wallace

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at…

— Christopher Dawson

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

— Francoise Mouly

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

— Michael Shermer

And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

What's the big deal? I have really strong morals, and just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't…

— Britney Spears

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future…

— Nelly Furtado

People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting…

— Van Jones