Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs. — Charles R. Swindoll
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for… — George W. Bush
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind… — George Boole
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and… — Maria Weston Chapman
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the… — David Hasselhoff
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. — James Martineau
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character,… — Rajneesh
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices,… — James E. Faust
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior,… — Don Henley
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the… — Frederic Bastiat
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. — Thomas Jefferson
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches… — John Stuart Mill
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that… — Ravi Zacharias
Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is… — Stephen Colbert

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