Quotes about Moral

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

It is better to die well than to live badly.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would, if such a right were a vital one.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?