Moral Quotes - Page 43

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.