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Moral Quotes

Reflections on courage, values and conscience.

One line here draws a clear distinction between physical bravery, called an animal instinct, and moral bravery, described as the higher and truer form of courage. A separate, genuinely tolerant idea compares rival faiths to neighboring businesses, each one keeping the others honest through healthy competition.

The sheer number of legendary narratives and historically verifiable incidents invites us to revise assumptions about the origins of biological and chemical warfare and its moral and technological constraints.

Quotes by Adrienne Mayor

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Quotes by Aden Young

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Quotes by Adam Sedgwick

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

Quotes by Adam Grant

Character Quotes

The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other...

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Money has no moral opinions.

Quotes by Abraham Polonsky

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Quotes by Yann Martel

Country Quotes

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Quotes by Woody Allen

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

Quotes by William Weld

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

Quotes by William Weld

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Quotes by William Slim

Good Quotes

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Quotes by William O. Douglas

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Quotes by William Masters

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Quotes by William Falconer

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Quotes by Will Durant

Government Quotes

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Quotes by Wendell Phillips

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "moral" mean across this quote collection?
It covers courage framed as a moral quality - one quote states that "moral bravery is much higher and truer courage" than physical bravery - along with religious pluralism and broader reflections on morality in public life.
Does this collection include a real legal or political debate about morality?
Yes, restrained: one quote is drawn from a real legal argument opposing recognition of a specific right, on the grounds that doing so would set aside "millennia of moral teaching." That's quoted here as the speaker's own stated opinion in a real, contested debate - not a position this page takes or endorses.
Is there a quote about religion and competition?
Yes - one quote compares faiths to businesses: "Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce," an observation about religious pluralism rather than an endorsement of any one tradition.
Does this collection touch on national moral decline?
Yes, one quote states plainly, "The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values," presented as that speaker's own assessment.
Where can I find more on this theme?
See the Character quotes collection for a related angle on personal integrity and courage.

A broader observation warns of a widening rift in the country's guiding values, a theme that recurs across public life more than once. For related themes, see our character quotes and good quotes, or browse moral stories for longer narrative lessons.