Moral Quotes - Page 15

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

Happiness is a moral obligation

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.