Quotes tagged ‘Moral’

(24 total)

“Stealing is not the way to get anything.”

— Tim Burton, Peg, Dianne Wiest, imdb.com

“The market is not moral; it only values what sells.”

“Just because something looks ugly doesn't mean that it's morally wrong.”

— Greta Gerwig, Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, Saoirse Ronan, imdb.com

“Commodus is not a moral man. You have known that since you were young. Commodus cannot rule. He must not rule [looking at Maximus] You’re the son that I should have had. Commodus will accept my decision. He knows that you command the loyalty of the army.”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Russell Crowe, imdb.com

“Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success.”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com

“The moral of this story is a good deed is its own reward.”

— George Meyer, Marge Simpson , Julie Kavner, imdb.com

“Look at me, I'm terrible at giving advice. I have no moral conscience whatsoever. If you won't do this for me, do it for your stupid friends out there. Trust me, they're completely lost without you.”

— Craig Bartlett, Steve Viksten, Joe Ansolabehere, Helga Pataki (voice), Francesca Smith, imdb.com

“I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a t…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“There is nothing radical about moral clarity.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, twitter.com

“When I behold the scientific and so-called philosophers full of selfish feelings, and of a tenency to war against circumstances and Providence, I say to myself: They are not true priests, they are but half prophets — it not absolutely false ones. They have read the great page simply with the physica…”

— Ada Lovelace, en.wikiquote.org

“The basic issue, however, is not political. It is moral and spiritual. For Christians it has to do with the scriptural teaching that all men, whatever their race or color, are children of one Father, created by him for an eternal destiny, and therefore of infinite worth....It has to do with the comm…”

— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com

“But just because you don't qualify for sainthood doesn't mean you can't form deep human connections -- or that your connections can't make a difference in the world. That's where technology comes in. If you make the moral choice to connect deeply to others, then your computer, your phone, and your t…”

— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu

“Clearly, he [President Bush] lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.”

— Al Sharpton, washingtonpost.com

“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“We must treat these girls respectfully, in a godly fashion, despite the moral stain from their lives before.”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com

“Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects—seemi…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.”

— Stephen Sondheim, amazon.com

“The voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring…”

— John Calvin, amazon.com