Moral Quotes

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

I am indeed a moral realist.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.