Moral Quotes - Page 12

• I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

  Bertrand Russell

  Environmental, Conditioning, Ambiguous

  Bertrand Russell, Barry Feinberg, Ronald Kasrils (1969). “Dear Bertrand Russell ... a selection of his correspondence with the general public, 1950-1968”, Allen & Unwin

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• I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

  Colonel Sanders

  Age, Quitting, Life Is

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• Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Demand, Assuming

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, Imagination

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• The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, Could we really make it live as art? There was an almost moral dimension.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Art, Dimensions, Photographer

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• Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Government, People, Black

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Art, Civilization, Political

  Murray Newton Rothbard, Leonard P. Liggio (1975). “"Salutary neglect": the American colonies in the first half of the 18th century”, Crown

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• If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Past, May

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• There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Civilization, Progress

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• If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Finals, Standards, Absolutes

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Support, Age

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Character, Men, Broken

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 203), 1973.

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• Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: first, many, many people even to this day, do take the whole of their Scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not of literal fact, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely, nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story?

  Richard Dawkins

  Islamic, Taken, Sacrifice

  "Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

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• A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Thinking, Government, Citizens

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• There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Character, Men

  "Fear Of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  Yolanda Adams

  Christian, Growing Up, Fun

  "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.

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• The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Morality, Guilty

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.108, Moody Publishers

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• If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Ideas, Judging

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• In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.

  Pamela Adlon

  Cutting, Together, Cameras

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• The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Evil, Denial

  Ravi Zacharias (2010). “Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend”, p.193, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liberty, Economic, Security

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• Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Vices, Virtue, Dressings

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• Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Finals, Analysis

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• Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Water, Paper, Milk

  Henry Hazlitt (1965). “What You Should Know about Inflation”, p.132, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.

  Jamie Glazov

  Fashion, New York, Wall

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