Moral Quotes - Page 13

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.