Moral Force Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force…
— PZ Myers
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Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
— Charles Lindbergh
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[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the…
— Joel Barlow
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to…
— H. V. Evatt
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America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
— Ronald Reagan
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
— Don DeLillo
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
— Odilon Redon
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There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and…
— Sumner Welles
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On…
— Don DeLillo
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The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been…
— Harry S. Truman
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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
— George Orwell
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As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion, when transmuted into intellectual and moral force, becomes a…
— James Allen
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We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which…
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.
— J Walter Thompson
Who Wrote These Moral Force Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Moral Force Quotes as follows: