Quotes About Moral

moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage.

Parece que todos los hombres de su familia han sido de buen corazón, Alma. Hay poca gente así en este mundo. - Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Character is perfectly educated will.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

I felt that the moral side of 'Black and White' was slightly confused. That's why I want the world to be in turmoil.

We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'

Evangelicalism's moral values are now articulated by reality stars like the Duggar family, who Mike Huckabee embraced, and 'Duck Dynasty,' whose patriarch, Phil Robertson, endorsed Cruz. Palin herself, an evangelical darling in 2008, has had two reality TV shows: 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' and 'Sarah Palin's Amazing America.'

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.