Top 1200 Moral Fiber Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

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

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

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

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the consumption of meat. This is more important than some fraction of us become moral saints and become vegetarians so it would be much better if we would reduce meat consumption by three quarters of each of us as an individuals would only eat one-quarter as much meat as we do now then that half of the population should become vegetarian. We should see this as a collective challenge rather than an issue about individual, moral period.

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

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be intimidating but rather to make eye contact. His question was essentially "are we really interested in moral motives? Isn't it all about action?". I pointed out to him that it was not enough for him to do the right thing - stand up - but he also wanted me to know that he is doing it from the right motive or for the right reason - to make eye contact, rather than to be intimidating. Voila, moral psychology.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

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

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

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

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

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

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

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

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

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

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

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

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

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

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency