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.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
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Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
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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.
