Quotes About Moral

The pulse of intention does not move so that one Can see it, and moral machinery is not labelled, but The future of time is determined by the power of volition.

Like physicians we have a duty to 'do no harm' (..). I argue that we can only do this through recognition of our own weaknesses and a willingness to understand how we might be tempted into positions of false omnipotence, moral superiority and boundary violations. (..) Like Guggenbuhl-Craig, I believe there is a 'bogeyman' within every therapist, longing for control (1971, p. 55).

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

It is desire that impels man to lose his discrimination and understanding, and thus commit wrong actions.

Why is self-awareness so important? We need it for self growth. Otherwise, it's just self-flagellation. Self-awareness gives us an understanding of the qualities that can truly enrich our lives. Essential moral qualities are Forgiveness, Gratitude and Giving.

'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.