Moral Quotes

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

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.