Moral Quotes · Page 73

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and…

— Karl Popper

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

— Novalis

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral…

— Samuel Pisar

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every…

— Ludwig von Mises

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned…

— George Bernard Shaw

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

— Dorothy Kilgallen

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

— Dennis Prager

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern…

— Harry S. Truman

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys,…

— Barry Eisler

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice…

— Aristotle

“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel.…

— P.J. O'Rourke

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will…

— Anonymous

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil…

— Al Gore

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their…

— John Dos Passos

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss…

— Kevin DeYoung

The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous…

— Charlie Munger

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking…

— Michael Josephson

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to…

— Daniel Craig

It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from…

— Judith Butler

Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals…

— Catherine Wilson

The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when…

— Jonah Goldberg

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.…

— Daniel Keyes

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

— Paul Bloom

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

— Rudolf Steiner

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

— Jack Valenti

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them…

— Suzanne La Follette

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

— Joseph Sobran

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

— Confucius

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything…

— John Steinbeck

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

— Al Gore

“Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in…

— Edmund Burke

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within…

— David Clennon

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

— Lauren Bacall

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is…

— Andy Serkis

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

— Eliza Lynn Linton