Moral Quotes

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

~ David Cameron

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

~ Lech Walesa

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

~ Jesse Jackson

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

~ Elizabeth Esty

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

~ Tom Vilsack

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.

~ Nigel Hamilton

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

~ Marty Meehan

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Sincerity is moral truth.

~ George Henry Lewes

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

~ Lee Atwater

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

~ William Slim

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

~ Harrison Ford

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

~ Tim O'brien

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

~ Oriana Fallaci

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

~ Marlon Brando

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

~ Martin Luther King

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

~ Richard Lamm

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.

~ Bernie Sanders

India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.

~ Vikram Patel

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.

~ Pat Buchanan

From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.

~ Burgess Owens

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

~ David Hume

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

~ Michael Ignatieff

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

~ Rita Mae Brown

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

~ Dante Alighieri

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

~ Jaron Lanier

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

~ John Adams

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

~ H. L. Mencken

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.

~ John Charles Polanyi