Moral Quotes

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong. In ethics, the choice is between two rights.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

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

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Sincerity is moral truth.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.