Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the… — Robert E. Lee
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a… — Alistair Cooke
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the… — Eugene V. Debs
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. — Minna Antrim
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be… — John Donne
Bad taste is a species of bad morals. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of… — Jacques Barzun
The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness. — Daniel Gilbert
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to… — Barack Obama
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some… — Philip James Bailey
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that… — John Bartholomew Gough
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus. — Cybill Shepherd
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. — Walter Lippmann
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a… — Aldous Huxley
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. — Mark Twain

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