Moral Life Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was… — Annie Besant
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.… — Emile Durkheim
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
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a… — Thomas Paine
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any… — Leo Tolstoy
I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life — Robert Mapplethorpe
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
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
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and… — Andrew Jackson
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation,… — J M Coetzee
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity… — Maximus the Confessor
One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a… — Antonio Gramsci
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more… — Bill Ayers
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If… — Grace Paley
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case,… — Michael Polanyi
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical… — William Bennett

Who Wrote These Moral Life Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 24 Moral Life Quotes as follows: