Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Custom alone regulates morals. — Anatole France
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them. — Henry Ward Beecher
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices… — Joel Stein
Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us… — Dean Koontz
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. — Henry Ward Beecher
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. — C.S. Lewis
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not… — C.S. Lewis
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C.S. Lewis
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. — C.S. Lewis
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is… — Charles Grandison Finney
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and… — Charles Grandison Finney
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established… — Charles Grandison Finney
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as… — Charles Grandison Finney
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has… — Thomas Jefferson
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of… — James Madison
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our… — Joseph Story
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable… — Thomas Jefferson
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain… — Charles Edward Merriam
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism… — Norman Angell
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what… — Confucius
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all… — Joseph Conrad

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