Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. — Ken Livingstone
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its… — Donna Leon
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years. — Frank Rich
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the… — Tim O'Brien
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences. — Park Chan-wook
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live… — Andrew O'Hagan
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable… — Sean Brady
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in. — Tabatha Coffey
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less… — Matthew Scully
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is… — Michel Houellebecq
I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to… — Theodore Dalrymple
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. — Bonnie Hammer
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love. — Ellen G. White
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world.… — Anthony Lewis
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning… — Chuck Palahniuk
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is… — Henry Louis Mencken
Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government… — William Bennett
If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or… — William Orville Douglas

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