Morals Quotes

...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his bet...

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act li...

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significa...

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and rewar...

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being a...

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they...

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statu...

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of t...

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shou...

One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than abo...

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Gather close, and let us speak of nasty little shits. Oh, come now, we are no strangers to the vicio...

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of the...

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but m...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just becau...

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them,...

The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are wha...

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a p...

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in news...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is...

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take ser...

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should foll...

Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my aff...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize a...

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough...

By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e...

Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.

...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be bea...

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral co...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence...

Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is ...

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his h...

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or no...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given t...

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed...

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need...

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not ma...

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matt...

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone w...

The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, li...

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize wit...

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—wh...

The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by...

What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be su...

Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity ...

The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. “Thou shalt love t...

New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It...

This is a high-strung, neurotic, impatient age. We hurry when there is no reason to hurry, just to b...

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral...

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.