Quotes with moral

  • My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
  • One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
  • Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
  • It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
  • Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
  • The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
  • 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.
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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Edna Ferber A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Aristotle Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Cowards can never be moral.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Milan Kundera 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
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Horace When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Faulkner 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
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • William Cowper A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Salman Rushdie A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Brendan Myers All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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