Moral Quotes

• Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Writing
  • Perspective
  • Innovation

• 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.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Long
  • Moral

• There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Moral
  • Empathy

• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  

  Alice James
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Death
  • Question

• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Leadership

• Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Book
  • First

• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

  

  Francois Fenelon
  • World
  • True
  • Religious

• More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Long
  • Character
  • Science

• 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.

  

  O. Henry
  • Moral

• John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.

  

  James McBride
  • Life
  • Real
  • Heart

• We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Thinking
  • Moral

• In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority of values. Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Great
  • School
  • Society

• Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Friends
  • Moral
  • Something

• Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Moral

• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Myself
  • Deep
  • Moral

• Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Power
  • Nature

• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Party
  • Moral
  • Waiting

• Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Power

• Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Education
  • Childhood

• The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

  

  George Gilder
  • Facts
  • Manners
  • Zone

• The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Moral

• I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Time
  • Death
  • Effort

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