Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs… — Theda Bara
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right… — Joseph Story
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral… — Margaret Thatcher
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out… — Vladimir Lenin
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be… — Gore Vidal
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine… — Gilbert Murray
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested… — Charles Alexander Eastman
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral… — Susan Jacoby
If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me do not… — Anders Behring Breivik
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man… — James F. Cooper
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is,… — Peter Medawar
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet
We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war.… — Che Guevara
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. — Kate Chopin
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to… — Jane Smiley
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic… — Sri Aurobindo
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.… — Murray Bookchin
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that… — Rudolf Rocker
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or… — Auberon Waugh
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few… — Adi Da
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences… — Sidney Hook
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding. — Nancy Pearcey

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