An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
Thomas Jefferson
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
John Locke
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
Lewis Carroll
No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Ronald Reagan
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
George W. Bush
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. .
Sigmund Freud
Anyone of good, moral character may join (the auxiliary).
Barbara Erickson
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
Howard Dean
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
Henry David Thoreau
He created a fantasy world that invites readers to consider the moral and psychological realities of our world.
David Downing
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.
Joseph Conrad
I'm not big on moral victories.
Jill Martin
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Hugh Grant
If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Auberon Herbert
We give neither legal nor moral recognition to same-sex marriages.
Ruben Trapenberg
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
Nicholas Johnson
If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for us in how do we advise our constituents.
Cecilia Munoz
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George Mcgovern
There are no moral victories. A win is a win and a loss is a loss.
Keenan Burton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton
I believe I was extremely greedy. I've lost my moral compass and did things I regret.
Andrew Fastow
I do not know what is there in the CD but let me say that RSS ideology has been of cultural policing. Joshi was a representative of the RSS in the BJP. Their claims of moral and cultural policing have been exposed again and again.
Ambika Soni
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods.
Irving Kristol
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen
We must do something. We have a moral imperative. This is wrong to let this go on.
Ranelle Lang
Moral: A peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deuteronomy 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.
Donald Morgan
There are no moral victories. You can't really gain confidence and say. We hung with this team.' It's all about winning.
Phil Dawson
This is really a moral victory for the banking industry, because we believe the credit unions were breaking the law and the Supreme Court affirmed that.
Janet Eissenstat
I think it is our moral responsibility as a community not to sue our neighbors.
Ronald Smith
I'd say he's the easiest and most difficult person I've ever worked for. He's easy because he's very consistent. He'll never surprise you with a moral or ethical direction. But he's difficult because he's incredibly demanding.
Paul Batura
What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold? Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at play in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar Bradley
He has the moral authority to be able to enforce that. In the absence of this 14th Dalai Lama ... I think the picture would be much more uncertain.
Kate Saunders
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock
I do not know what is there in the CD. But let me say that RSS ideology has been of cultural policing and Joshi was its representative in the BJP to teach it. Their claims of moral and cultural policing have been exposed again and again.
Ambika Soni
When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.
George Tenet
We got elected basically by saying we would live by a higher moral standard and I don't think recently we have.
Christopher Shays
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
The Bible is the Chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide.
Noah Webster
[Law is] vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Robert H. Bork
This is a moral catastrophe.
Chris Thompson
People of faith and conscience will continue . . . because that is the nature of our faith and our moral duty.
Stuart Taylor
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
Clarence Darrow
Our goal is always to be competitive and have a shot at a league championship, so I'm not going to take it as a moral victory. But the effort of our guys was great. There was no fear.
Andy Grimm
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
We see protecting privacy as a moral imperative.
Lance Cottrell
Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.
David Attenborough
Baby boomers get credited with changing society, but I would think the gentlemen who fought in World War II changed the world more than we did. They came back from the war, got the GI Bill passed and instilled good moral fiber in their families.
Charles Gallagher
I can't openly say that human rights are violated in Cuba. I don't have either the moral authority or the knowledge that would allow me to say so.
Nestor Kirchner
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
Vissarion Belinsky
The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.
Troy Newman
Some may call it a medical breakthrough. I believe it is a moral breakdown.
Raymond Flynn
Yesterday's accident cannot be excused, ... It was criminal negligence and I own moral responsibility for it.
Anil Kumar
The moral of the story is don't take advantage of handicapped, disabled or homeless people. It's the wrong thing to do.
Mark Quigley
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
David Ben gurion
How Big is Too Big? Global Warming and Moral Choices, ... The End of Nature.
Bill Mckibben
People are homeless, without jobs, they umm, they have no place to go, ... So we hope to give them some moral and spiritual support as well just by being there.
Pat Patterson
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
Dr. William H. Masters
What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth.
Roland Allen
If his chronological age was 6 or 7, we wouldn't even be here. We must put our state on a higher moral course for justice.
Harry Whittington
We strongly object on a moral level to the destruction of human beings at any stage of development for research.
Dennis Poust
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis
There honestly is no real justice other than God's that could be adequate to punish you for your crimes against humanity and the moral society we live in.
Glenn Heyes
We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.
Lester Abram
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
Jim Wallis
He said he wants students to know that if you do this, you're going to be charged. The police chief has just concluded that they did this. He doesn't have the legal or moral authority.
Brian Wolk
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
Chaim Weizmann
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
James Martineau
My parents had a positive attitude. They encouraged us to do the same. We knew we had a moral home.
Rosa Sanchez
It's primarily a love story with a moral message.
Tim Threlfall
She attacks our nerve endings, with a fierce attentiveness and an almost moral tone.
Bernard Holland
You can take the money and the jobs and throw it out the window. It becomes a moral issue ... of dumping on your neighbors.
Tracy Barnes
I'm defending a just cause that gives me great spiritual and moral strength. This is no more than a cleansing to protect me against any circumstances.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
Berkeley Breathed
Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract.
Joanne Dobson
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa
We must get back to a very strong Christianity. ... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
George Carey
Those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles...should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.
Lisa Madigan
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
I'm not in this thing for moral victories and I'm not in this to validate us as a team that plays hard. We've got to learn how to win ball games.
Tony Shaver
We don't look for moral victories. This was a loss like any other loss.
Gavin Grant
I don't like moral victories. We played well, and we made some mistakes, which cost us.
Al Melnick
I want to restore America to its moral compass.
Harry Jackson
These were not crimes of moral turpitude - they were management issues. This is a cautionary tale. The business of law is as important as the practice of law.
Mark Dubois
It was Mendenhall's first victory as a head coach, so that was a moral victory for us.
Todd Watkins
That's the biggest issue. Various districts have different definitions of moral turpitude.
Wayne Blanton
I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.
David Clennon
The message is that the D.C. City Council is not trying to judge our community. It's not trying to make this a moral issue. I think they're being very open with the equality.
David Meadows
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Joseph Marie De Maistre
Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.
Geraldine Brooks
But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
Thomas Chalmers
There is no such thing as a moral dress... It's people who are moral or immoral.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
In moments of despair, the picture gives him strength. He thinks the IDF has given up its moral backbone, and I agree.
Moshe Feiglin
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
To take the No. 6 team in the nation to the brink like that is a moral victory.
Dean Welch
Anytime you can get out to a quick start on a team, it lowers their moral and boosts ours.
Josh Lawrence
It is a real confidence booster having him back and on the field. He is a talent at running back and he keeps the moral up on the team.
John Eastman
History will record that you betrayed your constituents and their moral and ethical values. . . . You are not leading; you have gone astray.
Assemblyman Jay La Suer
If laws were made against homosexuality in India, it must have been done keeping in view the Indian social ethos and moral values.
Ashutosh Pandey
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Charles Sumner
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
Avram Noam Chomsky
We should be 3-0 on this road trip, but we're 0-3. There are no moral victories here.
Morris Peterson
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
Herb Elliott
If you look at five plays, we get those plays, we win, It won't be our coaching style to be into moral victories.
Tyrone Willingham
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A. J. Ayer
It's a moral issue. I can't sign something that says I agree to stop doing something I never did.
Patricia Santangelo
We know where our moral compass directs us.
Michael Sexton
The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research.
Linda Jackson
Another possible reason is to claim the moral high ground. Some people feel that they can prove their innocence by dying.
Seizo Fukuyama
He set it up before he died to give some students a shot at doing what they believe in and some moral support to follow their dreams.
Debbie Young
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Rick Perry just doesn't get it, that he doesn't understand that budgets are moral documents, that there are human costs attached to fiscal decisions.
Chris Bell
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
We're not really looking for moral wins. We knew we could play with them. A lot of people might not have thought that, but we knew we were good enough to play with them.
Chris Capko
The concept of legitimacy in Thailand is not just about elections. It has a moral and ethical component to it.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest.
Justice Marla Luckert
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Although I don't know if what he did was a crime, I feel it was problematic in a moral sense.
Hidetsugu Asanoi
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot
We're trying to give them all of the moral support we can.
Bobby Johnson
It's always good to have an opportunity to win a game, but we don't do moral victories here. We're not a moral victory kind of team. We lost, we lost.
Jason Cain
The moral issues get stronger or weaker depending on what the circumstances were when the museum got the painting.
Howard Friedman
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
W. R. Inge
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
Bobby Rush
It violated everything I personally believed in and everything I had been taught about war. It was more of a moral call than anything.
Joseph Darby
It was a bit of moral justice that soon after everything happened, we got the goals.
Carles Puyol
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Harold Wilson
They came in and fed with us in shifts as well as brought supplies and everything that went along with it, even moral support.
Andrew Dipasquale
An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
Alex Comfort
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
There's no such thing as a moral victory. But I saw a lot of great things. We're in for a pretty darn good season.
Jeff Cleveland
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
Joseph Pulitzer
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas Carlyle
That's what frustrates me. We pass laws based on moral issues and don't look at what happens in real life.
Karrie Galloway
We have to have the moral will. We have to have the intelligence. We have to have the political leadership to change this.
Myra Christopher
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica
We don't endorse or oppose candidates, but we can endorse ballot propositions when there is a moral or ethical issue involved.
Tod Tamberg
(The U.S. has) met any moral obligation to Iraq after we rescued them from their brutal dictator.
Steve Rothman
What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
Thomas Arnold
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
For me, it brings up a moral issue.
Jerome Meyer
Even if there's not a legal responsibility for the government to provide some basic health care, my God, there is a moral responsibility.
Michael Clements
The concern is that this could convey a message that the moral agenda Mrs. King embodies is now assumed under the ministry of Bishop Long. For all the good things Bishop Long has done, Mrs. King's moral atlas was more inclusive, one that reflected love of all people.
Robert Franklin
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
Charles Spencer
It comes down to whether county government has a moral responsibility to protect its citizens.
Terry Andreessen
He's a free person. We have no moral obligation to keep him away from here. As far as we're concerned, he's a tourist.
Heinz Jungwirth
They're so opposite on their moral grounds.
Mary Batchelor
Doesn't preclude them from having some sort of significant moral idea.
Gary Hoppenstand
Intellectual with high moral integrity ... and the fact that he took the side of his people in the most difficult time.
Radovan Karadzic
We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.
Daniele Audetto
The guy I know is of the highest moral character. I find it hard to believe in any shape or form he would condone or harbor an environment for these things to take place.
Pat Fitzgerald
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
In public meetings across the country, Brother David has spoken frequently about the fact that the food system has moral implications.
David Andrews
A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber
The kids played about the best they have since I have been here. So I was really proud of them even though we lost. It was still a moral victory for us.
Jeff Jennewein
I don't think he's going to have the moral authority or the support of his people to help clear up the mess.
Thomas Groome
What we're really emphasizing is that it's hypocritical for a moral leader like James Dobson to be producing these ads when the money, whether he knew it or not, came from gambling interests.
Sarah Belanger
We cannot hope to see an end to this terrible conflict until the facts are known about what occurred and justice is done. ... That's the moral imperative.
John Shattuck
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
Andrei Sakharov
I wouldn't look to Mr. Clinton for moral guidance, but I look to him for dealing with the issues that, historically, other presidents have avoided, and I look for him -- to him for caring about humanity and caring about our country and keeping us out of war and keeping the budget, and he's done all those things, ... Veronica's Closet.
Kathy Najimy
This is a moral issue for me, not a political one.
Shannon Sullivan
If these liars have a 14 percent reduction in grey matter, that means that they are less likely to care about moral issues or are less likely to be able to process moral issues. Having more gray matter would keep a check on these activities.
Adrian Raine
I formed Reformation Ohio to address spiritual and moral needs. I believe we must equally focus on both.
Rod Parsley
He tells me there'll be no sex in it, and I expect there won't. It's a very moral novel about life today.
Brian Mcmaster
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
Anthony Burgess
We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.
Graham Chapman
Israeli society has an moral duty to honor the Holocaust survivors, and to take care of them in the twilight of their days.
Avner Shalev
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