Moral Quotes · Page 19

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

— Howard Dean

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

— Anonymous

Business is the real test of the moral life.

— Ted Malloch

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

— Marian Hooper Adams

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

“As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.”

— Marcel Proust

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

— William Penn

“Light is not a moral category but the substance of light itself.”

— David Sten Herrstrom

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

— Erich Fromm

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

— John Rawls

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

— Jimmy Swaggart

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor…

— Eleftherios Venizelos

“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

— Colin Tudge

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of…

— Josh Billings

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people…

— Anonymous

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than…

— James Thomson

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality…

— Stefan Zweig

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if…

— Dennis Prager

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and…

— Aaron Ehasz

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting…

— Herb Elliott

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's…

— Milan Kundera

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,…

— Anonymous

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed…

— Jim Wallis

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical…

— Franz Joseph Gall

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist…

— John Steinbeck

If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in…

— Tom Arnold

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will…

— Augustine Birrell

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken…

— Richard Dawkins

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

— Walter Lippmann

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

— Ayn Rand

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Working in dysfunctional companies was an excruciating experience.”

— Steven Magee

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My moral in life is simple. You treat me good and I'll definitely treat you better.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin