Top 1200 Good Moral Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Obi-Wan understands that the best thing he can do is contribute something positive to the world around him and then to leave. And if he does that, he will in some ways live forever because the good influence of what he did will be felt. It may sound corny but that's kind of the way I feel about contributing to Star Wars characters. It isn't about me. It's about the story. It's about the mythology of Star Wars and the moral implications of that mythology.

I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress.

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

Optimism is the true moral courage

Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

The Internet is undermining moral values.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

My moral standing is lying down.

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in terms of individual rights. American history has consisted of swings back and forth between rights talk on the one hand and talk of duties, responsibilities, and the common good on the other hand. Recent decades have seen a big swing toward rights, and conceived in very individualistic terms, which hasn't always been the case even with rights.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

Optimism is true moral courage.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

I think I am a moral man.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.