Moral Quotes

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Optimism is the true moral courage

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.