Moral Quotes - Page 32

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.