Top 1200 Moral Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.
It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.
I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
