Moral Quotes

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.†

Hugh Grant

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.

Paul Heyne

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

Nicholas Johnson

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adler

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

Samuel Johnson

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation

Samuel Johnson

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial.

William H. Boyer

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

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice

Jacques Barzun

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime

Albert Einstein

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Thomas Jefferson

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers

William James

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.

Martha Boaz
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