Moral Quotes

Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.

Jacob Weisberg
- People
- God
- Political
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

Wallace Stevens
- Law
- Heaven
- Poetry

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Mason Cooley
- Moral
The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.

Nayef Al-Rodhan
- Knowledge
- Moral
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Dorothy Kilgallen
- World
- Trying
- Moral
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.

Jimmy Carter
- War
- Peace
- Violence
The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.

Fernando Botero
- Art
- Quality
- Injustice
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.

Edmund Burke
- Men
- Wine
- Beer