Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally… — Victoria Woodhull
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because… — Al Gore
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I… — David Guterson
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view… — John Shelby Spong
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims. — Albert Einstein
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;… — Peter Singer
Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning,… — Michael Fullan
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits… — George Saintsbury
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. — Clifton Fadiman
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What… — Anthony Kennedy
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,… — Albert Einstein
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it… — Jay Sekulow
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is… — William J. Brennan
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either… — Unknown Author
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property… — Unknown Author
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins

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