Moral Quotes - Page 11

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

The higher the building the lower the morals.