Quotes About Moral

When God created man, He saw that he couldn't survive in that solitude and gave him a shadow. But since then man has never stopped selling it to the devil. I knew him in all conditions. Moist in sacrifice, hostile or welcoming, voracious or retractile, excited or indifferent, impulsive and without qualms, dreamy on his best day. That people who share the same genes should be separated by a moral chasm helps us to reassess the values in the name of which they are killing each other.

Every free action has two causes which concur in producing it, one moral, namely the will which determines it, the other physical, namely the power which executes it.

I may not spare you, I said. For I would rather spare all those who would come into contact with you, were you to be left alive.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

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

There can be no debate that we possess a collective moral responsibility to leave a better world for our children rather than a devastated planet stripped of its resources.

I've watched Spike Lee's career with interest, and he seemed to be striving for an original and moral point of view.

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

Large credit guarantees also impede optimal allocation of financial resources and increase moral hazard.

For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.