Moral Quotes

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.

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.