Moral Quotes · Page 57

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

— Henry Jenkins

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without…

— Louis Finkelstein

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of…

— Bill Gates

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

— Margaret Sanger

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

— Martha Gellhorn

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

— John Stuart Mill

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So…

— James Burgh

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that…

— Alyson Stoner

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and…

— Emile Durkheim

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in…

— Jane Addams

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish…

— Felix Adler

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to…

— Michael Bloomberg

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial…

— Billy Graham

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which,…

— Joan Didion

If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will?…

— Daniel Dennett

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels…

— Michio Kaku

Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it…

— Angelina Grimke

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot…

— Immanuel Kant

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral…

— James MacGregor Burns

“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral…

— Robert B. Louden

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

— Jerrold Nadler

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom…

— Luke Rhinehart

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral…

— Michael Crichton

the action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter

— Cassandra Clare

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

— Murray Rothbard

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

— Edwin Louis Cole

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the…

— Gerald R. Ford

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

— Herman Kahn

We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

— Jesse Jackson

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

— Larry Flynt

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as…

— Emmeline B. Wells

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

— Raymond Smullyan

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

— Sherman Alexie

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary…

— Tamara Keith