Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Herbert Read

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

Ellen Burstyn

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Bruce Feirstein

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charles Baudelaire

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Claire Coffee

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Greg Graffin

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

George Orwell

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honore de Balzac

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Howard Hodgkin

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Howard Mumford Jones

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Herman Kahn

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