Moral Quotes

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

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

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.