Moral Quotes · Page 77

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

— Vera Rubin

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It…

— Guy Wetmore Carryl

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

— Edward Tufte

It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

“People do not glorify the humble because he is different but glorify morality which is fixed!”

— Hesham Nebr

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic…

— Elie Wiesel

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

— Jonathan Tucker

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many…

— Alexander Hamilton

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

— Theodore Sturgeon

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,…

— Reginald John Campbell

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires…

— Charles le Gai Eaton

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

— Barack Obama

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

— James Madison

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can…

— Adolf Hitler

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more…

— William Howard Taft

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

— James Madison

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening…

— Eric Clapton

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the…

— Friedrich Ratzel

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different…

— George Galloway

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

— Tim Gunn

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,…

— John Donne

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of…

— Jean Genet

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable…

— Anonymous

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

— Adam Gopnik

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

— Tony Judt

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I…

— Hugo Chavez

“The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of…

— Wolfgang Koeppen

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:…

— Immanuel Kant

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should…

— Julian Baggini

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have…

— Janna Levin

I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut…

— Ovid