Moral Quotes · Page 24

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

— Jonathan Sacks

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

— Thom Yorke

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

— Robert A. Heinlein

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

— Auberon Herbert

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

— Henry Paulson

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

— Harriet Martineau

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

— Lech Walesa

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own…

— Assata Shakur

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

— William Wilberforce

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

— Benjamin Whichcote

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

— James Hansen

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public…

— William Cobbett

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

— James Luther Adams

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

— Timothy Radcliffe

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We…

— Howard Dean

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…

— Fisher Ames

One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead…

— Joe Cornish

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe…

— Clarence Thomas

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a…

— Margaret Oliphant

I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important…

— Ser'Darius Blain

“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any…

— William Golding

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're…

— Tom Perez

I'm not physically harming any of these people by being high, and it's just interesting to see that I feel like my…

— Doug Benson

“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with…

— Peter James

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]…

— Martin Scorsese

“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or…

— Paul Johnson

Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can…

— Chuck Noll

We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's…

— Cory Booker

Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is…

— Ezra Taft Benson

White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral…

— Paula Rothenberg

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

— Ann Coulter

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

— Tom Hiddleston

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

— Hannah Arendt

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

— Berkeley Breathed

“There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.”

— Charles Dickens

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

— Mason Cooley

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

— Joseph Heller

“Not telling was evidently part of her moral code.”

— Val Brelinski