Quotes on Moral

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.