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
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