Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

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.

Thomas Sowell

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'...

Richard Carmona

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Archibald Alexander

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ezra Taft Benson

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

Ed Case

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

Andrew Mitchell

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Barbara Bush

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Jonathan Haidt

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Vladimir Lenin

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

William Blum

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

Barack Obama

Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.

Life

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Emma Thompson

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Barbara Castle

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction

To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had,...

The Greek Way

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God