Quotes About Moral

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

the fundamental moral question is not how to shelter children completely from misadventure and failure, so they never experience any fear or pain, but how to maximize their learning so that useful knowledge may be gained with minimal cost.

there are catastrophes lurking at the extremes of every moral continuum.

human health is a matter of moral action, perhaps more than it is a matter of anything else

The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good.

Millennials, often told they have received the finest education available anywhere, have actually suffered a form of serious intellectual and moral neglect.

respect for the rules, except when following those rules means disregarding or ignoring or remaining blind to an even higher moral principle

It is through such millennia-long exercise of the imagination that the idea of abstracted moral concepts themselves, with all they entail, developed.

It was impossible for me not to conclude that some of what had reduced her to her monthslong state of moral paralysis was not so much guilt about potentially contributing to the negative effects of human striving on the broader world, as it was the sense of moral superiority that concern about such things brought her (despite the exceptional psychological danger of embracing this dismal view of human possibility).

Moreover, by implying that values had a lesser reality than facts, science contributed in yet another way to moral relativism, for it treated "value" as secondary. (But the idea that we can easily separate facts and values was and remains naive; to some extent, one's values determine what one will pay attention to, and what will count as a fact.)

Alongside the wisdom of true conservatism is the danger that the status quo might become corrupt and its corruption self-servingly exploited. Alongside the brilliance of creative endeavor is the false heroism of the resentful ideologue, who wears the clothes of the original rebel while undeservedly claiming the upper moral hand and rejecting all genuine responsibility.

Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows.

The fact is that ,pain being one of the consequences of education,in that it grows greater and sharper with the growth of ideas ,it follows that the more we try to polish the minds and refine the nervous system of the under-privileged , the more we shall be developing in their hearts the atrociously active germs of hatred and moral suffering.

No ya vanguardia o tradición, sino compromiso, formal y temático, con una nueva sensibilidad temporal, con un uso creativo (y, en consecuencia, crítico) de las imágenes. O desaparición en la técnica, fundido en esa unidad técnico-comunicativa que constituyen los lenguajes hiperestetizados de la cultura de masas. Estamos asistiendo al necesario nacimiento de una nueva moral de la actividad artística o su disolución

La independencia moral es el sostén de la dignidad. Si el hombre aplica su vida al servicio de sus propios ideales, no se rebaja nunca. Puede comprometer su rango y perderlo, exponerse a la detracción y al odio, arrostrar las pasiones de los ciegos y la oblicuidad de los serviles; pero salva siempre su dignidad. Nunca se avergüenza de sí mismo, meditando a solas.

La visión del mundo que pretendían establecer los norteamericanos se basaba en la convicción de la superioridad del «modo de vida americano»,[35] asociada a la idea de que su componente religioso era una garantía de su ventaja moral sobre «el comunismo ateo».

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice