Morally Quotes

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.