Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds. — Benjamin Rush
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect… — Benjamin Rush
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood… — Moshe Sharett
The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have… — Frank Chodorov
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one… — William Alexander Percy
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world… — Berry Gordy
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must… — Charlotte Mason
To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb. — Stuart Wilde
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the… — Catharine Beecher
Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched… — Marc Bekoff
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than… — Rich Mullins
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of… — Rich Mullins
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. — Jack Valenti
We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back. — Bill Courtney
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic. — Jack Beal
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of… — Arthur Hertzberg
The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his… — Samuel Pisar
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying… — Carol Tavris
Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough? — Natalie
Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth,… — Bryan Fischer
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window… — Mort Kondracke
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral… — Robert Conquest
But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem… — Guy Spier

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