Moral Quotes - Page 20

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

To be loved is very demoralizing

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.