Moral Quotes

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.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

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.