Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral… — Edmund Gosse
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find… — Harmony Korine
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,… — Dudley Nichols
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it… — David Bentley Hart
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we… — Pamela Hansford Johnson
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living… — Andrew Mellon
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage… — Timothy Radcliffe
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. — Timothy Radcliffe
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest… — Richard Fortey
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man… — Midge Decter
Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion. — Herman Kahn
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. — Herman Kahn
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and… — Natan Sharansky
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard… — James W. Loewen
Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more… — B. Traven
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a… — Damon Lindelof
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political,… — Harold Rosenberg
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role… — Virchand Gandhi
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the… — Charles Kennedy
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples… — Alister E. McGrath
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts,… — Matthew Scully

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