Moral Quotes · Page 19

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

— John Dewey

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

— Johan Rockstrom

“It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important”

— Margherita Hack

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

— Mary Douglas

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

— Melky Cabrera

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his…

— Jimmy Hoffa

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

— Ellen Burstyn

“5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless…

— Sun Tzu

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at…

— Jon Krakauer

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

— James Q. Wilson

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I…

— Gza

As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral…

— James McCosh

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from…

— Paul Johnson

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend…

— Ludwig von Mises

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to…

— Robert Heilbroner

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not…

— Pankaj Mishra

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets…

— Ani DiFranco

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as…

— Achille Mbembe

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally…

— George Washington

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in…

— Ayn Rand

It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance…

— Peter Medawar

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means…

— Albert Einstein

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

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a…

— Luigi Pirandello

I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think…

— William Weld

My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired…

— Frederick Douglass

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

— Joseph Joubert

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

— Anonymous

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

— Dallin H. Oaks

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

— Henry Giroux

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

— Anonymous

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

— Jason Beghe