Quotes About Moral

We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give.

Who can reckon up the loss of moral power that arises from the constant impression that nothing is worth doing in itself, but only as a preparation for something else, which in turn is only a getting ready for some genuinely serious end beyond?

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

it is very hard for a liberal to maintain his smug pose of moral and rational superiority over traditional religious believers and other non-liberals if he admits that his ideals are just one set of ungrounded prejudices among others

it's one thing for England and another for Italy. There we plan and get on high moral horses. Here we find what asses we are, for things go off quite easily, all by themselves.

Washington rightly called this "a new phenomenon in the political & moral world; and an astonishing victory gained by enlightened reason over brutal force.

With every step forward we become more sure what the disorder is not: it is not willful misbehaving, it is not a moral failing, it is not a lack of trying nor an inability to take an interest in the world. Neurobiological data now show that the syndrome is rooted in the central nervous system.

in one of those moods, it is not the time for introspection. Beware the preacher because he is beguiling. Because you're intelligent and you like words, and you grew up in a strict moral framework, when you hear arguments mounted against you you can hardly resist answering back. But once you join in, the preacher has you. You cannot win. The preacher will always have the last word. In those moods, you can never stare him down.

A satellite has no conscience.

A thought that carries filth; indeed, incites and excites lecherous character and conduct; conversely, thought that holds decency; certainly, executes and displays dignity and moral values of life.