Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of… — Gordon Brown
There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope… — Andrea Pirlo
Taking the life of another is always a moral crime. — Angelo Scola
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of… — Lawrence Kohlberg
Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force. — Mary Brave Bird
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a… — Charles Stross
I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain't got… — Young Jeezy
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is… — John Brown
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral,… — Ann Radcliffe
Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all… — Julie Burchill
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling… — Romain Rolland
Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation,… — Stewart Brand
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral… — Howard Lyman
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have… — Alan Keyes
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C.S. Lewis
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. — C.S. Lewis
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. — Reinhold Niebuhr
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same — Zoltan Kodaly
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. — Florence Nightingale
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except… — Ron Paul
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction… — Walter Lippmann

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