Moral Quotes · Page 48

“The moral argument ends the moment someone tries to hurt the people you love.”

— Adrian Howell

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

— Jovenel Moise

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

— Nadine Gordimer

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

— Robert D. Kaplan

“The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.”

— John Cheever

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

— Anonymous

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

— Josh Billings

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

— Lecrae

The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.

— Molly Ivins

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is…

— Robert Conquest

“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So…

— James Burgh

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in…

— Noah Webster

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put…

— Iris Murdoch

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me…

— Romain Rolland

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly…

— Ayn Rand

Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great…

— Suetonius

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our…

— John Hagee

My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important…

— Michael Sandel

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel…

— Albert Einstein

It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may…

— Robert Owen

“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human…

— Robert B. Louden

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very…

— Edmund Gosse

How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become…

— Sam Harris

Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of…

— David Bentley Hart

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

— Tony Dungy

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

— Michel Sidibe

“It’s the moral fabric that lends to behavioural pattern.”

— BS Murthy

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

— Will Durant

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

— Emile M. Cioran

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

— Richard Dawkins

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

— Mark Twain