Moral Quotes - Page 10

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

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.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.