Moral Quotes · Page 54

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the…

— George McGovern

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

— Albert Einstein

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

— Bret Stephens

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

— Nicolas Chamfort

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and…

— Robert E. Lee

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

— Frances Wright

. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility…

— Suzanne La Follette

I'm not physically harming any of these people by being high, and it's just interesting to see that I feel like my…

— Doug Benson

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're…

— Tom Perez

“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any…

— William Golding

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the…

— Herbert Croly

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change…

— Agnes Repplier

It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear,…

— Brennan Manning

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich…

— Ben Shapiro

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce…

— James Cook

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's…

— Paul Keating

You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By…

— Anonymous

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more…

— Thomas Paine

The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.…

— Edward Snowden

[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams…

— Richard Rorty

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect…

— Catherine the Great

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral…

— Agnes Repplier

You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.

— Jason Evert

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian…

— Harriet Martineau

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

— Ralph Nader

“People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same…

— Karen Traviss

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in…

— William A. Dembski

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

— Julian Baggini

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

— Louis Farrakhan

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

— R. Heber Newton

“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That…

— Dada Bhagwan

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

— Confucius

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

— Dorothea Brande

“El convencionalismo no es moralidad. La superioridad moral no es religión. Atacar primero no significa asestar el último golpe.”

— Charlotte Brontë

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than…

— D. H. Lawrence