I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Joseph de Maistre

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
Joel Coen

Money has no moral opinions.
Abraham Polonsky

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Arnold J. Toynbee

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
Clara Zetkin

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
Sydney J. Harris

The problem is we need much more moral content.
Cornel West

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Mason Cooley

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
David Attenborough

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Healing is a moral thing to do.
Jay Inslee

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
Leo Burnett

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman Mailer