Moral Quotes - Page 42

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.