Best Moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?”

Ifs Kids Moral Alive Complexity

Author:Richard Louv

“I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.”

Thinking Giving Term Moral Aspect Catholic Fundamentals Raised Glad Code Grounding Moral Code

Author:Frances O'Connor

“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”

Government Moral Authority Understood Moral Authority

Author:Keith O'Brien

“It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.”

Country Law Views Moral Judging Foundation Our Country Acknowledgment Appease Sad Day Federal Judges

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.”

Body Spiritual Moral Taken Risk Military Your Body Centre Joining Joining The Military

Author:Kevin Powers

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.”

World Religion Jesus Christ Religious Moral Jesus Christ

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.”

War States Levels Moral Dangerous Mass Intellectual Lows Entity Antisocial

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Money has no moral opinions.”

Money Moral Opinion

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“My morals are important to me.”

Important Moral

Author:Hunter Parrish

“In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.”

Ifs Lines Moral Integrity Draws Get Away Ethical Survivor Fees

Author:Jeff Probst

“It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.”

Long Past Political Moral Healthy Solutions Aspect Tools Women's Health

Author:Martha Plimpton

“You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.”

People Knows Government Moral Defense Bad Things Retreat Limited Government

Author:Russell Pearce

“Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.”

People Important Matter Government Social Decision Moral Economic Majors Essence Determine Priorities Decision Making Ethical Meaningless

Author:Jimmy Reid

“It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.”

Suffering Imagination Moral Small Things Suffering Of Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.”

Lying Moral Bears My Friends Difficulty Pressure Immediate Family

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.”

Needs Humans War Use Political Moral Cutting Military Spending Human Needs Against War Military Spending

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.”

War America Political Leader Moral Class Streets Middle Policy Wall Greed Corporate Middle Class Destroying Elsewhere Billionaire Corporate Greed

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.”

Mean Doe School Moral Boys Program Bullying Anti Bullying Moral Education

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.”

Children Character Shows School Christian Culture Force Religious Perfect Rooms Education Moral Christianity Clear Teacher Argument Bases Commonwealth Degrading True Education

Author:Robert Dabney

“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”

Humans Reason Age Sex Community Race Moral Racism Species Deny Protection Rejects Sexism Orientation Membership Sentient Beings Ageism Speciesism

Author:Gary L. Francione

“The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Character Literature Moral Reader Truth Is Universal Addresses

Author:Whitley Strieber

“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.”

Sometimes Seems Today Order Religious Moral Opposites Saving God Love Imperatives Prevailing Proclamation Saving Love

Book:Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

“The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.”

Long Enough Today Results Moral Boys Particular Objectives Maximum

Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

“In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.”

World Should Different States Form Humanity Differences Moral Democracy Bases Deserving

Author:Roberto Unger

“My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.”

Helping Kids Moral Compass God Help Moral Compass

Author:Jack Wagner

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”

Men Trying Believe Doe Fall Loses Results Moral Roles Influence Pride Prove Authority Dominion Steam Seizing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.”

Challenges Moral Morality Immoral Critique

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.”

Humans Body Reality Individual Christ Moral Reflection Dues Introducing Deficiency Body Of Christ

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.”

Wells Ends Hands Imagination Existence Moral Mankind Position Behavior Majors Foundation Complexes Atheist Permanent Hunts Deities Theism Theist Pretender Moral Behavior Napoleon Complex

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.”

Ifs Mean Christian Form Spirit Moral Teaching Example Higher Capacity Flesh Theology Contemplation Orthodox Mystical Standpoint Materialistic Logos Moral Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.”

Way Want Kids Moral Ambiguity Precision Ambiguous Moral Ambiguity

Author:Lois Lowry

“I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.”

Thinking Way Want Needs Humans Human Beings Moral Written Particular Directors Prejudice What You Want Acknowledge Appropriate Acceptable Assassins Human Needs

Author:Joe Mantello

“Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Persons Body Would Be Choices Courses Moral Depends Don't Believe Stance Women's Bodies

Author:Louise Mensch

“I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.”

Trying Matter Film Wish Moral Color Raises Critics Sophisticated Anna

Author:James McBride

“There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?”

“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.”

Men Kind Has Beens Made Pain Interesting Moral Doubt Fool Angel Deny Obligation Could Have Been Most Interesting Immune Moral Obligation

Author:Mark Twain

“Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.”

Voice Moral Heard Movement Extraordinary Biographies Indispensable Captured Mandates Ordinary Life Extraordinary Life Bibliography

Author:David Levering Lewis

“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”

Should Reading Interest Moral Particular Bears Morality Reflection Murder Agree Convinced Stealing Observation Witness Dogma Plunder False Witness

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.”

Ifs States Reason Play Suffering Moral Laughing Doors Fairs Positive Atheism Arise Good Sense Sects Fair Play Religious Sects

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”

Moments Stories Order Culture Moral Civilization India Complexes Tales Islamic Delicate Evident Conquest Discouraging Barbarians Invading Multiplying

Author:Will Durant

“Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.”

Humans Moral Grounded Human Experience

Book:Women

Source: Women

“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.”

Ifs World Trying Eye Political Responsibility Moral Willing Happenings Injustice Political Life Moral Life

Author:Bill Ayers

“You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.”

People Knows Care Political Moral Standpoint

Author:Lars von Trier

“Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.”

Men Should Moral

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.”

Way Feels Humans Hands Moral Capable Evidence Cruelty Psychological Adulthood Depravity Disillusioned

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.”

Law Term Moral Principles Return Morality Moral Principles Counterproductive Diminishing Returns

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

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