Moral Quotes · Page 49

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

— Patricia Briggs

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

— Robert South

“And the moral for Dinosaurs is: Lock the Back Door!”

— Mo Willems

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

— Dan Ariely

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

— Minna Antrim

The problem is we need much more moral content.

— Cornel West

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

— Michael Josephson

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

— Samuel Johnson

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of…

— John Ruskin

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense…

— Frederick C. Beiser

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

— Eskinder Nega

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought…

— Allen W. Wood

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as…

— Sheldon Jackson

“God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual…

— Dorothy Day

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back…

— Natan Sharansky

And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not…

— Eugene Rivers

Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with…

— William Lee Miller

I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they…

— Anne Wojcicki

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there…

— Abraham Lincoln

The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly…

— David Hume

Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words…

— Matthew Scully

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then…

— Barack Obama

If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all…

— Norman Borlaug

The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the…

— Ken Salazar

Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the…

— Jacob Needleman

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do…

— Flannery O'Connor

I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan…

— Pankaj Mishra

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

— Anonymous

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

— Tony Dungy

“The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.”

— John Cheever

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

— Robert D. Kaplan

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

— Jovenel Moise