Moral Quotes

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Money has no moral opinions.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

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.

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.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural.

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.