Moral Quotes - Page 7

• Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

  Charlie Munger

  Next Steps, Easy, Ends

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• We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

  Charlie Munger

  Perfect, Culture, Prison

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Struggle, Quality, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.1, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Men, Layers

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• I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, Rights, Order

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• You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

  Roque Dalton

  Eye, Men, Judging

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• The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Men, Fellow Man

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• I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Cigar, Five, Smoke

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• I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

  Tom Stoppard

  Issues, Kind, Endless

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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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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• Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technique, Dignity, Idiot

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• What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.233, Ravenio Books

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• ... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

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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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• Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

  David Simon

  Forever, Limits, Surprising

  David Simon, Edward Burns (2013). “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood”, p.92, Broadway Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Taken, Moral Development

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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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• All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Principles, Holiness

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Doe, Flesh

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• Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Vices, Virtue, Dressings

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