Moral Quotes · Page 61

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and…

— Charles Simmons

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry…

— Michael Graves

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

— Rachel Kushner

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost…

— Jack Beal

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

— Andrew Young

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a…

— Margaret Sanger

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly…

— Flannery O'Connor

'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should…

— Katrina Kaif

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have…

— Joan Didion

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible…

— Salman Rushdie

“If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is…

— Peter Singer

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is…

— Thomas Nagel

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to…

— Josh Lieb

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my…

— Thomas Jefferson

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.…

— Charles Dickens

These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing…

— Louis Farrakhan

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give…

— Anonymous

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp…

— Manton S. Eddy

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We have moral responsibilities to other people in our community because they are people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or lot…

— Francis J. Beckwith

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so…

— Timothy Keller

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

— Joseph Addison

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed.…

— J. Edgar Hoover

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

— Federico Fellini

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

— Patrick Swift

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to…

— Elihu Root

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

— William C. Bryant

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

— Harry Blamires

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and…

— Caroline Leavitt

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

— Orhan Pamuk

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

— Max Anders