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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.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Quotes by Robert Bork

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Quotes by Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Quotes by Rita Mae Brown

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

Quotes by Richard Louv

The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan...

Quotes by Richard Engel

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Quotes by Rex Stout

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.

Quotes by Rene Russo

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

Quotes by Ravi Zacharias

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

Quotes by Randall Terry

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Quotes by Ralph Waite

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Quotes by Plutarch

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Quotes by Philip James Bailey

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Quotes by Peter Lewis Allen

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Quotes by Paul Wellstone

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

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.