Moral Quotes · Page 37

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

— Thomas Carlyle

What is moral is what you feel good after.

— Ernest Hemingway

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.”

— David Mitchell

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

— Clement Attlee

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

— Margaret of Valois

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of…

— June Jordan

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

— Janice Raymond

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

— Colin Tudge

“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor…

— Eleftherios Venizelos

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

— Jimmy Swaggart

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

— John Rawls

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

— Herbert Spencer

it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other,…

— Hannah More

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment…

— Robert M. Price

I never wake up wondering whether the day is going to be a meaningful one or whether my labors are gonna be…

— Eric Reeves

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,…

— Michael Sandel

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised…

— Sarah Vowell

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or…

— E. F. Schumacher

For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad…

— Mark Twain

People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about…

— Charles Colson

So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart…

— Frances Power Cobbe

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country…

— Samuel Adams

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow…

— Edward Abbey

We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires.…

— Gotz Aly

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to…

— Thomas Jefferson

I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the…

— Bernardine Dohrn

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

— Malcolm Forbes

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

— William Jennings Bryan

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

— Steven Spielberg

“you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors”

— Abraham Lincoln

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

— Hermann Goring

Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?

— Natalie

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Salman Rushdie