Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else… — Noam Chomsky
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only… — Ayn Rand
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and… — Henry Ward Beecher
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone
Democracy is moral before it is political. — Louis D. Brandeis
It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that… — Arthur Goldberg
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to… — Unknown Author
The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable… — Immanuel Kant
Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality. — Hillary Clinton
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of… — Pope John Paul II
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us.… — Ban Ki-moon
I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue. — Al Gore
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the… — Al Gore
The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's… — Ken Salazar
It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but… — Isabella Beeton
An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card. — Alex Comfort
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. — Henry David Thoreau
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in… — Eric Kierans
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… — John Kenneth Galbraith
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To… — William Shakespeare
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Unknown Author
Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)… — Thomas Paine
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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