Moral Quotes

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

It's a moral question.

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world.

Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.