Moral Quotes

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

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.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.