Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

Bad politics make for bad morals.

— Joseph Brodsky

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

— Thomas Mann

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...

— Thomas Merton

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

— Mark Twain

What is moral is what you feel good after.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

— John Perry Barlow

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

Good morals lead to good laws.

— Chuck Norris