Moral Quotes - page 2

The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald Ford
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
Anthony Kennedy
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.
Thomas Jefferson
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
William O. Douglas
There is no act more moral between men than that of rule And obedience.
Thomas Carlyle
Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. (Thomas Carlyle)
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
Thornton Wilder
I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic.
George S. Patton
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Glenn Beck
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. (Leon Trotsky)
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Bertrand Russell
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Václav Havel
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake