Moral Quotes · Page 30

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

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

— Jonathan Haidt

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.

— Earl Sweatshirt

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Tom Hiddleston

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

— John Lewis

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

— Richard Dawkins

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle…

— Van Jones

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get…

— Orson Welles

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too…

— Thomas Sowell

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.…

— Susan Sontag

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify…

— George Clooney

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these…

— Edmund White

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read…

— Alice Hoffman

In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on…

— Jamie Glazov

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting…

— Bertrand Russell

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks…

— Anthony Burgess

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of…

— Orson Scott Card

Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up…

— Hesketh Pearson

My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired…

— Frederick Douglass

I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think…

— William Weld

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is…

— Rebecca West

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism…

— Andrew Sullivan

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection…

— Primo Levi

But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have…

— Kenny Smith

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be…

— Katharine Hayhoe

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

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

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

— Ann Coulter