Moral Quotes - Page 6

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.