Explore Quotes on Moral

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

America was founded by statesmen who were guided by strong moral and political principles. These principles have allowed this nation to flourish and continually improve itself.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.