Moral Quotes - Page 12

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.