Top 1200 Moral Fiber Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

President Trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.