Moral Quotes
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.
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The rhetorical extremism, the winking at violence, the reveling in vulgarity, and the embrace of amoralism are not bugs but features of Trumpism. Intellectual and moral coarsening is both a condition and a consequence of the demagogue's success. Trumpism really does corrupt.
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A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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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.
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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
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Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
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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.
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No two beings, and no two situations, are really commensurable with each other. To become aware of this fact is to undergo a sort of crisis. But it is with this crisis in our moral awareness as a starting-point, that there becomes possible that cry from us towards the creative principle, and that demand by it on us, which each must answer in his own way.
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The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
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There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
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I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.
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Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
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When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
