Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on… — Lascelles Abercrombie
You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who… — Ezra Taft Benson
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone… — Theodor Herzl
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. — Rex Stout
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as… — Frederick Douglass
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I… — Frederick Douglass
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For… — Fernando Pessoa
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.… — David Hume
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of… — Pope Leo X
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be… — Malcolm Gladwell
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the… — Jonathan Haidt
If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going… — Jonathan Haidt
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide — Jonathan Haidt
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would… — Sarah Palin
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. — Huston Smith
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground.… — Veronica Roth
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of… — L. Tom Perry
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. — Pope Benedict XVI
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize… — Pope Benedict XVI
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to… — Emmeline Pankhurst
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating… — Gary Taubes
The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness,… — Alexander McCall Smith

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