Moral Quotes

They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is—when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the sake of the other and that reason is their only means of trade.

~ Ayn Rand

Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it opens to us a thousand different ways on which we can embark in all confidence; we are assured of meeting there no obstacles; but of all these ways, which will lead us most promptly to our goal? Who shall tell us which to choose? We need a faculty which makes us see the end from afar, and intuition is this faculty. It is necessary to the explorer for choosing his route; it is not less so to the one following his trail who wants to know why he chose it.

~ Henri Poincaré

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

~ William Deresiewicz

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

~ James C. Dobson

If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is to gamble that what we believe to be right will come out of the ballot with more votes behind it than what we believe to be wrong; and that is a gamble we will often lose.

~ Peter Singer

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their loved ones or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

~ Ayn Rand

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

~ Carl Hiaasen

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.

~ David Chiles

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

~ Joe Hill

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?

~ K.l. Toth

The only thing more powerful than words- is the Author who chooses them.

~ K.a. Gunn

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.

~ Caragh M. O'brien

Even in concept, angels are unsettling. They’re like drones, totally mindlessly following the will of God. The only difference between the Heavenly angels and demons is that the demons opted to follow after a different queen bee. So, you have these eyeball speckled, part animal monsters who exist only to worship and obey God. They don’t have a moral compass, they just act.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.

~ Lorna Sage

Before you deal out your moral judgement on me, perhaps you should ask yourself what you did.

~ Tony Moyle

Self as such was not normal ..will be like the Justice, which lost its wings !! Both are rivals for the same man ..

~ Hesham Nebr

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

~ Oscar Wilde

Hermes smiled. I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, re

~ Rick Riordan

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

~ Mohamed Zahy Hussain

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

~ Saul D. Alinsky

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

~ James C. Dobson

A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

~ Edward Heath

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

~ Robert Casey

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

~ John Stuart Mill

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

~ Curtis Lemay

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

~ Bill Moyers

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

~ Thorstein Veblen

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

~ Alan G. Poindexter

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

~ Emma Thompson

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

~ Aristotle

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

~ Harriet Martineau

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

~ John Burroughs

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

~ Jonathan Sacks

People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

~ Nick Hanauer

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

~ Xun Kuang