Moral Quotes

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Great, Courage

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Character, Actions, Virtue

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

Nature, Against, Nor

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

Thinks, Englishman

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam

Leadership, Creativity, Become

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Great, Courage

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Hillary Clinton

Integrity, Voting, Process

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

War, Feeling, Nothing

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, After

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, While, Economic

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway

Cannot, Problem, Solution

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

Power, Society, Character

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, After

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Carl Lewis

Life, End, Someone

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

Today, True, Struggle

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Far, Imagine

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama

Power, Used, Act

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand

Society, Law, Means

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find, Sick, Start

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken

Between, Honor, Regrets

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

Understand, Become, Difficult

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key

Love, Marriage, Legal

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

Great, Lost, Battle

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Selfish, Slack

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Mitt Romney

Spiritual, Meaning, Commitment

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Often, Worst

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker

Good, Beautiful, Mind

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious

Alive, Possible, Chaos

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Control, Thoughts, Possible

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Society, Children, Test

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