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.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

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

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

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?

Bad company ruins good morals.

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.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

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.]

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

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.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

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.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

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.

Fear is the mother of morality.