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.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.
Large credit guarantees also impede optimal allocation of financial resources and increase moral hazard.
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship...
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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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.
