Moral Quotes - Page 17

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.