Moral Quotes

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.