Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Real Christianity

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

The Unbearable Bassington

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

The Unconscious Civilization

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

Voice of Reason

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Michael Shermer

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Alif the Unseen

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

Justus von Liebig

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

Henry Mayhew

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.

H. L. Mencken

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

Joe Wright

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

Josh Charles

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novalis

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Omar N. Bradley

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Paul Bettany

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

P. J. O'Rourke

The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.

Ricardo Derose

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Tony Judt

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Timothy Noah

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann