Moral Quotes - Page 45

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

Money always talks louder than morality.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.