Moral Quotes

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

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.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.