Moral Quotes · Page 46

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

— Martin Amis

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

— Michael Josephson

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

— Theophile Gautier

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

— Anthony Bourdain

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

— Sher Valenzuela

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral…

— Honore De Balzac

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

— C. S. Lewis

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either…

— Louis Berkhof

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

— James Russell Lowell

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

— Marcel Proust

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

— G. Willow Wilson

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

— William Jones

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives…

— Steven Pinker

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a…

— Veronica Roth

Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we…

— Dale Jamieson

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,…

— Donna Tartt

We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends…

— John B. S. Haldane

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration…

— Simone Weil

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that…

— Victor J. Stenger

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to…

— Leo Tolstoy

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will…

— Emma Goldman

Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also…

— Gary Taubes

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in…

— Tucker Carlson

The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing…

— William G. Bainbridge

I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,…

— Brian Molko

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.…

— Alan Bradley

... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another,…

— Davis McCaughey

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

— Peter Kreeft

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

— Abraham Lincoln

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

— Bill McKibben

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

— Martin Firrell

“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.”

— Aldous Huxley

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

— Stacy Schiff

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

— John Fowles