Moral Quotes · Page 29

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

— Thomas Hardy

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

— Muhammad Iqbal

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

— Joseph Joubert

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

— Dallin H. Oaks

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

— Anonymous

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

— Ellen Key

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

— Edmund Burke

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

— Steve Chabot

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from…

— Rich Mullins

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

— Andrew Young

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel…

— Hans Kung

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is…

— George Sand

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but…

— Henri Nouwen

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,…

— Virgilia Peterson

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the…

— Jeremy Northam

If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at…

— Sam Storms

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as…

— Anonymous

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for…

— John Sweeney

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little…

— Tom Robbins

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a…

— Luigi Pirandello

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

— David Foster Wallace

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means…

— Albert Einstein

It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance…

— Peter Medawar

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in…

— Ayn Rand

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a…

— Kenan Malik

Believe in yourself don't lower your moral to fit it just be true to yourself

— Syntific

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

— John Irving

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“El amor corresponde a una moral de máximos. El respeto, a una moral de mínimos.”

— Jesús Mosterín de las Heras

“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Mason Cooley