Moral Quotes - Page 51

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

They judge lest they be judged.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years - the underlying basis for enormous increases in productivity and human welfare and rising living standards, particularly in the United States, and in the industrialized nations but in fact, in most parts of the world.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.