Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Joni Mitchell

Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.

Jury Nel

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

Joel C. Rosenberg

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

Jimmy Swaggart

Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.

Janine Turner

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.

Derek Blasberg

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Don DeLillo

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

D. H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

D. H. Lawrence

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

H. L. Mencken

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Edmond de Goncourt

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

Nick Naylor: My job requires a certain... moral flexibility.

Thank You for Smoking

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Louis Finkelstein

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Muhammad Iqbal

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel