Moral Quotes - Page 2

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

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

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.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

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.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

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

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

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.

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?

Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

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

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

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

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