Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. — William Lloyd Garrison
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be… — Vissarion Belinsky
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. — Mark Twain
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their… — Nathanael Emmons
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct… — Northrop Frye
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if… — Edward Abbey
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their… — Thomas Jefferson
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them… — Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are… — Frederic Bastiat
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. — Samuel Adams
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the… — Samuel Adams
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,… — Thomas Jefferson
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly… — Thomas Jefferson
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,… — Thomas Jefferson
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly… — Thomas Jefferson
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of… — Thomas Jefferson

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