Moral Quotes · Page 53

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every…

— Joseph Addison

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,…

— Edward Everett

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person.…

— Paul Tillich

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

— Gouverneur Morris

This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are…

— Ronald Rolheiser

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of…

— John Adams

The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created…

— Laurie Penny

“I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm…

— Dave Barry

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the…

— Max Planck

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,…

— Catherine Wilson

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it…

— J. K. Rowling

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

— Valerie Miner

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the…

— Gary Wolf

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

— Stephanie S. Tolan

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is…

— Ayn Rand

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

— Sher Valenzuela

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

— Richard Holloway

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory…

— Paul Ormerod

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

— Richard Flanagan