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.
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
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Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.
I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.
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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.
