I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral. — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them.… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
