Moral Quotes

The dependence of family life makes a person more moral. (Aleksandr Pushkin)
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. View quote
Charles Darwin
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. View quote
H. G. Wells
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. View quote
Dante Alighieri
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. View quote
Booker T. Washington
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. View quote
Ron Paul
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. (Immanuel Kant)
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. View quote
Edmund Burke
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. View quote
Norman Mailer
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. View quote
Iris Murdoch
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. View quote
George Washington
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. View quote
Oscar Wilde
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. View quote
Francis Bacon
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. (H. L. Mencken)
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. View quote
Denis Diderot
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. View quote
Mark Twain
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". View quote
Sydney J. Harris