Moral Quotes · Page 36

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

— Tony Dungy

“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”

— Lincoln Steffens

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

— Michael Ruhlman

“was in the grip of his moral, mental being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

— Immanuel Kant

“Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a “moral force.”

— Nicholas Carr

“I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.”

— Joe Hill

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

— Leonard Sweet

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

— George Santayana

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and…

— Angus Deaton

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which…

— Aristotle

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien…

— Orson Scott Card

The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with…

— Matt Chandler

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to…

— Ernest Hemingway

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to…

— John Stuart Mill

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to…

— J. K. Rowling

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun…

— Yara Shahidi

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage,…

— George Will

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex…

— Marlene Zuk

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of…

— Adolf Hitler

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only…

— Ayn Rand

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…

— Thomas Paine

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of…

— Erich Fromm

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor…

— Tim O'Brien

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth…

— Steven Pinker

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

— Jean Cocteau

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

— Yves Saint Laurent

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

— Mona Eltahawy

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

— Al Gore

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

— Joseph Jacobs