Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in… — C.S. Lewis
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange… — Ayn Rand
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not the character, it… — Rajneesh
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals… — Felix Frankfurter
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. — Sun Tzu
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean… — Margaret Thatcher
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to… — Samuel Johnson
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing… — Penn Jillette
WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual… — Sathya Sai Baba
We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion,… — D. Todd Christofferson
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are… — Brigid Brophy
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of… — Archibald MacLeish
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention… — Victor Garber
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,… — James Madison
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be… — Thomas Jefferson
The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his allies, change of… — Johan Galtung
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn
As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man… — Bruce R. McConkie
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. — Ronald Reagan
What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery! — John Kendrick Bangs
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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