Moral Quotes
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There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
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Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
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When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.
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I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
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The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
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Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.
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Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.
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Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.
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After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
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Moral education is the development of individuality, and individuality can not be developed by formulas and mechanical processes: it is the work of the master who brings to his task a genuine and loving interest in the individual.
