Moral Quotes · Page 62

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may…

— William Borah

“Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.”

— Richelle Mead

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or…

— Michael Sandel

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

— Noah Webster

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little…

— Andrea Pirlo

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

— Anonymous

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

— Paul Morley

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

— Stephanie Kaza

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about…

— Jeff Probst

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than…

— Anonymous

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance…

— E. W. Howe

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In…

— Sergio Troncoso

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution…

— Mark Twain

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong.…

— John Peter Altgeld

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to…

— Ayn Rand

There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the…

— Robert Dabney

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it…

— Matthew Arnold

I didn't really care about money. I really wanted to follow my bliss. I really wanted to do the things that would…

— Neal Gabler

Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction…

— Deborah Lupton

I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to…

— Charles Koch

It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of…

— Edward Gibbon

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as…

— Henry Clausen

Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger…

— Elizabeth Samet

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself…

— John Green

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

— Herbert Hoover

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

— Bayard Taylor

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

— Daniel Craig

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

— Karen Armstrong

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and…

— Anton Chekhov

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

— Anonymous

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

— Mason Cooley

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

— Noah Webster

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex…

— Paul Rudnick

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

— Samuel George Morton

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

— Walter Lippmann

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

— Mick Jagger