Moral Quotes - Page 7

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.

Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.