Moral Quotes

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Sincerity is moral truth.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.