Explore Quotes on Moral

Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

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.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'