Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. — Rita Mae Brown
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. — Harry Browne
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources… — Pearl S. Buck
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical… — Edmund Burke
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a… — John Burroughs
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's. — Barbara Bush
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to… — George H. W. Bush
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be… — A. S. Byatt
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and… — A. S. Byatt
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too. — David Cameron
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of… — Kirk Cameron
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion. — Tony Campolo
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social,… — Tony Campolo
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. — Lewis Carroll
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And… — Benjamin Carson
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either… — Giacomo Casanova
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. — Robert Casey
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble. — Steve Chabot
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you… — Raymond Chandler
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this… — Hugo Chavez
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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