People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they’re doing things because they’re right, because they live by a moral code.

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Books follow morals, and not morals books

The moral of the story: When considering an engineering problem, beware of letting related unknowns distract attention from well-understood solutions.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical

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.

Whenever A attempts by law to impose his moral standards on B, A is most likely a scoundrel.

A food critic really only needs two things in order to do his job properly: no eating disorders and the gastric morals of a hooker with a mortgage

The moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constseseantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Peace on earth, goodwill toward men’ – democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

To be an atheist is a matter not of moral choice but of human obligation

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination and a little dough.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want to suffer. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

You have to know that as long as you love who you are – your morals, your values, that type of stuff – you’re OK.

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

We become strongest, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look for moral gudance

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social.