Moral Quotes

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.

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.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

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.