Moral Quotes

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

C. S. Lewis
- Real
- Job
- Simple
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

Sam Levenson
- Family
- Parents
- Thought

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

Flannery O'Connor
- Life
- Time
- Good
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

Edmund White
- Up
- True
- Know
When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Henry Rollins Black Flag
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Barack Obama
It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

John Caudwell
- Time
- Important
- Children
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Oswald Chambers
- Work
- God
- Done