Moral Quotes

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Business is the real test of the moral life.

An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

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

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

A true war story is never moral.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.