Top 1200 Good Moral Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz... and some honey... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

People think that a good passer is a flashy passer. But that's not a good pass. It's just a flashy pass. A good passer is someone who's gonna hit the guy right on the hands, and the timing is correct. You pass late, and it's not a good pass. You pass too early, it's not a good pass, either. If it's off-target, it's not a good pass.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

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

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.