Moral Quotes

• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Moral

• Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Die
  • Christian
  • Slavery

• Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Long
  • Real
  • Political

• Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Moral

• Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don't think biblically on these matters.

  

  Ken Ham
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • People
  • Truth
  • Night

• Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Higher
  • Restriction
  • Inferiors

• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Harmony
  • Law Of God
  • Human Law

• I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  

  Joe Mantello
  • Moral

• Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Couple

• Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Science
  • Law
  • Value

• Make no mistake, it is precisely our moral authority that is our greatest source of strength, and it is precisely our moral authority that has been recklessly put at risk by the cheap calculations and mean compromises of conscience wagered with history by this willful president.

  

  Al Gore
  • History
  • Risk
  • Mistake

• There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Men
  • May

• My moral standing is lying down.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Moral
  • Lying Down

• While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Important
  • Moral

• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Law
  • Fall
  • Lust

• Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Music
  • Moral
  • Deceitful

• I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

  

  Anne Michaels
  • Believe
  • Feeling
  • Moral

• There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Behavior
  • Activity
  • Weasels

• The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make.

  

  David Farr
  • She
  • Moral

• Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Style
  • Moral

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