Moral Quotes · Page 53

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

— Tony Hsieh

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

— Aime Martin

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no…

— Francis Schaeffer

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient…

— Desmond Tutu

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the…

— Max Stirner

For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to…

— Anonymous

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

— Ayn Rand

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You…

— Amity Shlaes

I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important…

— Ser'Darius Blain

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe…

— Clarence Thomas

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a…

— Margaret Oliphant

One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead…

— Joe Cornish

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…

— Fisher Ames

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one…

— Barbra Streisand

Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation.…

— Abraham Lincoln

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.…

— C. S. Lewis

It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future.…

— Prince Gomolvilas

You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of…

— Wayne Dyer

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or…

— John Bartholomew Gough

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at…

— Kate Chopin

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we…

— Neil Gaiman

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

— John le Carre

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a…

— Josh Hutcherson

I hate asking someone for their opinion, it always sounds like the right & moral thing to do.

— Raghib Clitso

Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect…

— Timothy Keller

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

— Mark Twain

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral…

— Sissela Bok

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over…

— Timothy Radcliffe

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

— Tom Lehrer

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...

— Thomas Merton

“The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today”

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

— Johan Huizinga

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

— Alan Bennett

“A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people…

— Alexander McCall Smith