Quotes About Moral

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

What I've learned is that the muses' decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose— they will sing or not, regardless.

The moral of the story', he repeated, leaning forward and placing his hands flat on the desk in front of him, 'is that every so often a natural disaster comes along, an act of God, and it blows all the dust away and when it does people can see that whatever's left underneath ain't so pretty. You get it?' Denton

Their "strange Divinity" results from their lacking any sense of right or wrong, good or bad.

My new book on moral intelligence calls these patriarchies "cultures of obedience," and presents an ethics of virtues as a way to avoid such moral totalism.

Graham always used to say that I was shocked when he came out. That implies some sort of moral objection. Untrue. I was not 'shocked', I was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very surprised.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, Dig two graves.

I can't wait till you get what you really deserve when you hurt other people intentionally, because I believe everything happens for a reason. Maybe it was God's will to teach you some manners that is visible to human eyes and will put a mark all through your life.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

My agenda for this book is twofold: first, to make the moral argument against identity socialism, and second, to make the moral argument for free market capitalism. I will debunk the socialist dream and affirm the American dream. These arguments are not a simple matter of ideological refutation.