Moral Quotes · Page 81

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of…

— Jonathan Kozol

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

— Rick Warren

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

— Herman Kahn

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

— Gary Bauer

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just…

— Ernest Hemingway

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those…

— Richard G. Scott

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and…

— Jacob Bronowski

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,…

— Steven Pinker

“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,…

— Criss Jami

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation…

— Jeremiah Denton

Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities,…

— Margaret Beckett

You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there…

— Catharine Beecher

My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure…

— Erykah Badu

The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But…

— Marianne Williamson

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent…

— Boris Sidis

It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense…

— Ravi Zacharias

I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So…

— Elie Wiesel

Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than…

— Ravi Zacharias

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

— Konrad Lorenz

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

— Lucy Stone

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a…

— Barack Obama

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

— Ian Mcewan

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

— Jimmy Carter

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

— Murray Rothbard

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

— Che Guevara

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

— Anne Lamott

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

— Michael Sandel

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

“People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn’t keep.”

— Shannon L. Alder

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

— Anonymous

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

— Edward Kennedy