Quotes About Moral

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

One's love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one's identity.

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.