Moral Quotes

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.