Moral Quotes · Page 42

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

— Bill Moyers

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

— Robert Webb

My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.

— Penny Johnson Jerald

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

— Anonymous

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

— Mort Sahl

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but…

— Kevin Powers

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to…

— Kristin Kreuk

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

— Steven Pinker

If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.

— Elizabeth Chambers

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by…

— Robert Bork

[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand…

— Leonard Read

I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort…

— Andrew Linzey

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire…

— Felix Adler

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called…

— Edmund Burke

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked…

— James Madison

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying…

— Jared Diamond

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my…

— Coco Chanel

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by…

— Thomas Naylor

“There is a moral sturdiness to (hardware store owner) Charley that isn't advertised or boasted about, but is obvious to all who…

— Philip Gulley

It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm…

— Johnny Carson

President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He…

— Noam Chomsky

My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or…

— Hugh Hewitt

There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.…

— Howard Lyman

I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I…

— Lawrence Auster

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

— Kin Hubbard

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

— Robert Ardrey

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

— Pope Leo XIII

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

— Mary Somerville

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

— Austin O'Malley