Moral Quotes - Page 48

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

It is immoral not to tell.

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.