Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above… — Wallace D. Wattles
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that… — T. Harv Eker
Laws without morals are in vain. — Benjamin Franklin
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care… — Lysander Spooner
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. — Milton Friedman
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of… — Samuel Adams
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is… — Leonard Read
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point… — Abraham Lincoln
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. — Robert Morrison MacIver
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. — Charles Lindbergh
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Heinz Pagels
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use… — Wernher von Braun
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… — Henry David Thoreau

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