Top Moral Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Moral quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Malcolm Turnbull
I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.
- Malcolm Turnbull
Collection: Moral
Image of Josef Pieper
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to perceive, in silence, the call of reality, and to make, in the retreat of this silence, the decision appropriate to the concrete situation of concrete action.
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Moral
Image of Jed Rubenfeld
Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.
- Jed Rubenfeld
Collection: Moral
Image of Dorothea Brande
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
- Dorothea Brande
Collection: Moral
Image of Henry Jenkins
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
- Henry Jenkins
Collection: Moral
Image of Michael Eric Dyson
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
- Michael Eric Dyson
Collection: Moral
Image of Sylvia Townsend Warner
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Collection: Moral
Image of Edmond Rostand
To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.
- Edmond Rostand
Collection: Moral
Image of Steven Yeun
If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.
- Steven Yeun
Collection: Moral
Image of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Only he who knows God is truly moral.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Collection: Moral
Image of Russell D. Moore
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.
- Russell D. Moore
Collection: Moral
Image of Lawrence Reed
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.
- Lawrence Reed
Collection: Moral
Image of Rudolf Carnap
In logic, there are no morals.
- Rudolf Carnap
Collection: Moral
Image of Oren Lyons
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.
- Oren Lyons
Collection: Moral
Image of David J. Farber
Photons have neither morals nor visas.
- David J. Farber
Collection: Moral
Image of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Collection: Moral
Image of Robert D. Kaplan
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.
- Robert D. Kaplan
Collection: Moral
Image of James Sharp
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.
- James Sharp
Collection: Moral
Image of E. L. Doctorow
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
- E. L. Doctorow
Collection: Moral
Image of Vera Rubin
I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
- Vera Rubin
Collection: Moral
Image of Jack Higgins
I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.
- Jack Higgins
Collection: Moral
Image of H. L. A. Hart
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.
- H. L. A. Hart
Collection: Moral
Image of George Lakoff
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
- George Lakoff
Collection: Moral
Image of Joel C. Rosenberg
I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.
- Joel C. Rosenberg
Collection: Moral
Image of Li Hongzhi
Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.
- Li Hongzhi
Collection: Moral
Image of Mario Bunge
Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.
- Mario Bunge
Collection: Moral
Image of Eskinder Nega
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
- Eskinder Nega
Collection: Moral
Image of Tibor R. Machan
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Moral
Image of Al Gore
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
- Al Gore
Collection: Moral
Image of Kevin Feige
Clickbait is the worst. That's my big moral highground, when I don't click on clickbait.
- Kevin Feige
Collection: Moral
Image of Frank Abagnale
Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.
- Frank Abagnale
Collection: Moral
Image of Ben Shapiro
Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
- Ben Shapiro
Collection: Moral
Image of Alex Borstein
I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.
- Alex Borstein
Collection: Moral
Image of Kin Hubbard
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
- Kin Hubbard
Collection: Moral
Image of Manfred Rommel
Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.
- Manfred Rommel
Collection: Moral
Image of Daniel Hannan
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
- Daniel Hannan
Collection: Moral
Image of Eric Drooker
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.
- Eric Drooker
Collection: Moral
Image of Ted Malloch
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
- Ted Malloch
Collection: Moral
Image of Martin Firrell
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.
- Martin Firrell
Collection: Moral
Image of Jane Velez-Mitchell
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Collection: Moral
Image of Marian Hooper Adams
The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.
- Marian Hooper Adams
Collection: Moral
Image of John Lewis
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
- John Lewis
Collection: Moral
Image of Chip Pitts
Genuine leadership is inherently moral.
- Chip Pitts
Collection: Moral
Image of Chip Pitts
Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.
- Chip Pitts
Collection: Moral
Image of David Mackenzie
The problem with American cinema is that because you're making films with huge amounts of money you need to hit the lowest common denominator in order to make it back and so therefore you're not allowed to play with moral ambiguities or ask questions.
- David Mackenzie
Collection: Moral
Image of Penny Marshall
Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.
- Penny Marshall
Collection: Moral
Image of Harvey Mackay
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Moral
Image of Paul S. Kemp
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
- Paul S. Kemp
Collection: Moral
Image of Peter Boghossian
Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.
- Peter Boghossian
Collection: Moral
Image of Frederick C. Beiser
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.
- Frederick C. Beiser
Collection: Moral