Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,… — Thomas Jefferson
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them… — Benjamin Franklin
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not… — Alexander Hamilton
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations,… — George Washington
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country. — George Washington
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… — Thomas Paine
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. — Thomas Paine
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace. — David Trimble
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams
My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot. — Ben Quayle
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. — Margaret Sanger
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,… — John Dewey
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,… — Carl Jung
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral… — Robert M. Hutchins
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,… — William James
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own… — Herbert Marcuse
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried… — Jurgen Habermas
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all… — Ruhollah Khomeini
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is… — Leo Tolstoy
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any… — Leo Tolstoy
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault. — Paul Ryan
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls… — Paul Ryan

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