Moral Quotes · Page 47

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

— Iris Murdoch

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

— James Cook

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

— Simone de Beauvoir

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

— George Washington

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

— Minna Antrim

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

— Jonah Goldberg

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

— Erich Fromm

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

— Janice Raymond

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of…

— June Jordan

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.”

— Aldous Huxley

Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques...

— Mas Oyama

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial…

— Billy Graham

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to…

— Michael Bloomberg

We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does…

— Christopher Hitchens

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane,…

— Thomas Jefferson

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in…

— Whitney Houston

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that…

— Alyson Stoner

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were…

— Anthony Giddens

Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.'…

— Ravi Zacharias

Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither.…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.…

— Howard Lyman

I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I…

— Lawrence Auster

My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or…

— Hugh Hewitt

I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have…

— Jim Elliot

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

— Michael Josephson

The problem is we need much more moral content.

— Cornel West

I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.

— Mary Crosby

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“And the moral for Dinosaurs is: Lock the Back Door!”

— Mo Willems

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

— Robert South

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

— Dan Ariely

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

— Patricia Briggs