Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust

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

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
Norman Borlaug

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
Robert Baden-Powell

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker

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 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

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