Moral Quotes · Page 63

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

It will be up the Gen Z to rebuild the institutions and replenish the moral capital squandered by their forbears.

— Miranda Devine

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk

— Margaret Chase Smith

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough…

— Major Taylor

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

— Cybill Shepherd

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

— John Caudwell

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

— Pramila Jayapal

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in…

— Harlan Ellison

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of…

— Joel Barlow

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think…

— Jessie J

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.…

— Jimmy Carter

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -…

— Robert A. Heinlein

In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline…

— Jessica Valenti

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me…

— Romain Rolland

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put…

— Iris Murdoch

I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews…

— Ehud Barak

I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this…

— Amy Bloom

As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of…

— Tariq Ramadan

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the…

— Boyd Rice

A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for…

— Sylvia Poggioli

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by…

— PZ Myers

Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money.…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

— David Ben-Gurion

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral…

— David Novak

I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.

— Ranbir Kapoor

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

— Tom Allen

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Not only did few of them sense a moral responsibility for the part they had played, few of them thought to question…

— Ann Tusa

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that…

— Peter Ustinov

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

— George Washington

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

— Norman Douglas

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

— Florence King

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

— Andrew Young

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the…

— John Witherspoon

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

— Anatol Rapoport

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

— Thomas Reid

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

— George Bernard Shaw