Moral Quotes - Page 4

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

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

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

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.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

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 men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this. ... I have no moral obligation to submit to the justice of my enemies. I have therefore chosen the manner of death of the great Hannibal.

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

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.