Moral Quotes · Page 5

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

— Owen Wister

She sleeps alone at last.

— Robert Benchley

Do not be a magician - be magic!

— Leonard Cohen

First the grub, then the morals.

— Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is a moral category.

— Theodor Adorno

Eats first, morals after.

— Bertolt Brecht

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Bad company ruins good morals.

— Paul the Apostle

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

— Ruth Gordon

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

— Paul Newman

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

— Gustave Flaubert

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

— Immanuel Kant

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

— Lee R. Raymond

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

— Ela Bhatt

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability.”

— Ayn Rand

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that…

— Hermann Hesse

Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law…

— Ravi Zacharias

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

— Grace Slick

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

— William James

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

— Clayton Christensen

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

— William Murchison

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

— Nathaniel Branden

The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a…

— Gouverneur Morris

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you…

— Stephen Mallinder

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would…

— John Piper

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for…

— John Dewey

The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the…

— Colonel Tom Parker

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems…

— J. Allen Hynek

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us…

— Jane Goodall

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that…

— Roger Ross Williams

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know…

— Errol Morris

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it…

— Ignatius of Loyola

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

“When we opt to stay above the clouds, relying only on information fed to us instead of going down to see for…

— Simon Sinek

Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public…

— Barbara Ehrenreich