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.
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We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
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...
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.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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.
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
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.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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.
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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.
