Top 1200 Moral Fiber Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

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

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

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

People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

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

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

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

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

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

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

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

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

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

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.

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

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.

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

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

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