Moral Quotes · Page 66

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

— William C. Bryant

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or…

— Michael Sandel

“Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.”

— Richelle Mead

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

— Noah Webster

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

— Orhan Pamuk

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may…

— William Borah

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

— Max Anders

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude…

— David Brooks

Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from…

— Jack Gleeson

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…

— C. Wright Mills

This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no…

— Desmond Tutu

Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt…

— Simon Pegg

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as…

— Lewis Mumford

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery…

— William Blake

I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very…

— Barack Obama

“the passage on dignity is an addendum to the formula of autonomy: ‘act only so that the will could regard itself as…

— Oliver Sensen

The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural…

— Christopher West

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…

— Ayn Rand

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea.…

— Daniel Burrus

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself…

— John Green

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

— Herbert Hoover

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little…

— Andrea Pirlo

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

— Anonymous

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

— Paul Morley

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

— Stephanie Kaza

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

— Anonymous

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

— Daniel Craig

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

— Bayard Taylor

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and…

— Anton Chekhov

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

— Karen Armstrong

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

— Basil Hume

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

— Emma Goldman

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

— Samuel George Morton