Moral Quotes

• There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • War
  • Evil
  • Cold

• One challenge is to agree on minimum criteria of good governance that are not perceived as a threat to cultural traditions and to draw on moral concepts that are indigenous to specific cultural settings. fix cite

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Moral

• And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • People
  • Moral

• The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness

  

  African Spir
  • Moral
  • Consciousness
  • Improvement

• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Moral

• Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Art
  • Character
  • Book

• 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

• Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God’s truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • God
  • Heart
  • Truth

• The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• 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

• 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

• Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

  

  James Dobson
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• 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

• 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

• Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Work
  • Character
  • Nature

• After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Death
  • Question
  • Religious

• We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

  

  Bob Ney
  • People
  • Moral
  • Honor

• I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Religious
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

  

  Valerie Miner
  • Political
  • Emotional
  • Competition

• We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Taken

• 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

• Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

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