Moral Quotes

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what I have to offer.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?