Moral Quotes - page 4

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. (William Ellery Channing)
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. View quote
Felix Adler
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. View quote
John Rawls
We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception. View quote
John Rawls
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. View quote
O. Henry
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. View quote
David Attenborough
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. (George Bernard Shaw)
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. View quote
Paul Ricœur
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. View quote
George W. Bush
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. View quote
Steven Pinker
He who is void of virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all Regard for his Country. There is seldom an Instance of a Man guilty of betraying his Country, who had not before lost the Feeling of moral Obligations in his private Connections. View quote
Samuel Adams
No moral system can rest solely on authority. View quote
Alfred Jules Ayer
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. View quote
Martin Amis
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. View quote
William Cowper
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. View quote
Will Durant
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. (Bertrand Russell)
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. View quote
Robert Conquest
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. View quote
Lewis Carroll