Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual… — Susan Sontag
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please… — John Selden
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day… — William O. Douglas
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government… — Harrison Ford
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us… — Unknown Author
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is… — Frederic Bastiat
Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the… — Thomas G. West
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own… — Ayn Rand
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .… — John Quincy Adams
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them… — Mark Twain
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least. — Mark Twain
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them… — Mark Twain
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the… — Mark Twain
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain
It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday. — Mark Twain
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The… — Mark Twain

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