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Famous Morals Quotes

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. β€” Sivananda

Good morals lead to good laws. β€” Chuck Norris

Morals are private. Decency is public. β€” Rita Mae Brown

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers β€” Kiran Bedi

Morality is a private and costly luxury. - Henry Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury. β€” Henry Adams

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity. β€” James Dobson

Good moral character is the first essential in a man. β€” George Washington

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. β€” Confucius

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality. β€” Lao Tzu

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. β€” Vaclav Havel

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. β€” Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. β€” William Slim

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. β€” William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. β€” Arthur Levitt Jr

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. β€” Arthur Levitt

Short Morals Quotes

  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. β€” Mahatma Gandhi
  • Do the right thing because it is right. β€” Immanuel Kant
  • The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. β€” Aldous Huxley
  • The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. β€” Saint Augustine
  • How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue! β€” A. A. Milne
  • Bad company ruins good morals. β€” Bible
  • Bad company ruins good morals. β€” Paul the Apostle
  • The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. β€” Edmund Burke
  • Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. β€” C. S. Lewis
  • When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. β€” Emile Durkheim

Morals Image Quotes

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant quote

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. β€” Immanuel Kant

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. - Isaac Asimov quote

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. β€” Isaac Asimov

The most powerful moral influence is example. - Huston Smith quote

The most powerful moral influence is example. β€” Huston Smith

Optimism is the true moral courage - Ernest Shackleton quote

Optimism is the true moral courage β€” Ernest Shackleton

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. - Laurence Sterne quote

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. β€” Laurence Sterne

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. - George C. Marshall quote

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. β€” George C. Marshall

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. - Jaggi Vasudev quote

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. β€” Jaggi Vasudev

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. - Christopher Hitchens quote

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. β€” Christopher Hitchens

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely. - Cheikh Anta Diop quote

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely. β€” Cheikh Anta Diop

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. - Sigmund Freud quote

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. β€” Sigmund Freud

Without Virtue there can be no liberty - Benjamin Rush quote

Without Virtue there can be no liberty β€” Benjamin Rush

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. - H. L. Mencken quote

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. β€” H. L. Mencken

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid - Robert Liparulo quote

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid β€” Robert Liparulo

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. - W. C. Fields quote

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. β€” W. C. Fields

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville quote

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. β€” Alexis de Tocqueville

Morals quote Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self r
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

Good Moral Values Quotes

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. β€” Thomas Sowell

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good. β€” Li Hongzhi

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values. β€” Li Hongzhi

Morals quote A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. β€” Milton Friedman

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions. β€” Michael Josephson

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. β€” Yolanda Adams

Morals quote Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes. β€” Ayn Rand

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way. β€” Vladimir Putin

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities. β€” Pope Francis

Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it. β€” Samuel Scheffler

Ethics Moral Values Quotes

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. β€” Starhawk

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. β€” Samora Machel

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. β€” Fred Bear

Morals quote Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. β€” H. L. Mencken

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house. β€” Audre Lorde

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. β€” Thomas Jefferson

Morals quote Bad company ruins good morals.
Bad company ruins good morals.

Do not be a magician - be magic! β€” Leonard Cohen

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life. β€” Luci Swindoll

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity. β€” Pitirim Sorokin

Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality. β€” Bhikkhu Bodhi

No Moral Values Quotes

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another. β€” Ruth Benedict

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil. β€” Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. β€” Bertrand Russell

Morals quote The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. β€” Julian Huxley

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology. β€” Lewis Wolpert

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. β€” Gary Bauer

Morals quote I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

No moral value is greater than humanity. β€” Kurt Vonnegut

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. β€” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future. β€” Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only a Europe that is conscious of its own values can be both an economically strong and a morally and intellectually respected partner, and thereby extend its hospitality to others. It's a cultural disgrace that we are forced to identify no-go areas for foreigners. β€” Walter Kasper

Importance Of Moral Values Quotes

To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. β€” Cesar Millan

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. I am also convinced that love is the most important ingredient in the single 's search for meaning. β€” Gary Chapman

There's nothing of any importance in life β€” except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. β€” Ayn Rand

Morals quote Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life. β€” Sam Harris

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. β€” Marian Wright Edelman

If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it. β€” Tony Danza

Morals quote I'd say a man is someone who is strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human beeing.
I'd say a man is someone who is strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human beeing.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. β€” Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight. β€” George W. Bush

Social Values Quotes

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace. β€” Maria Montessori

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. β€” Aga Khan IV

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. β€” Jacque Fresco

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. β€” Robert Kiyosaki

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. β€” Margaret Mead

Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings. β€” Jose Antonio Abreu

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically. β€” Amit Goswami

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed. β€” Aga Khan IV

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. β€” Kofi Annan

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game. β€” Milton Friedman

Ethical Values Quotes

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be. β€” Ratan Tata

Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life. β€” Werner Heisenberg

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing. β€” Michael Jordan

A badly acquired good never benefits. β€” French Proverbs

The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress β€” Irving Janis

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. β€” William Baldwin

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. β€” Pierre de Coubertin

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. β€” Myrtle Aydelotte

What will they learn if we value their lives as lesser than ours? What if the machines felt that the way we treated them was a form of slavery which it would be? How do slaves react to power and authority? Humanity's arrogance creates the illusion that everything is here to serve us. β€” Mo Gawdat

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. β€” Paul Kurtz

Human Values Quotes

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. β€” Steven Biko

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. β€” Eadweard Muybridge

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development. β€” Rajiv Gandhi

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles. β€” Sayings

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose. β€” Jean-Paul Sartre

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it. β€” Marcus Garvey

Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. β€” Saint Francis de Sales

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. β€” David Ben-Gurion

Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph. β€” Pio of Pietrelcina

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. β€” Isaac Asimov

Personal Values Quotes

People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about. β€” Nick Saban

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. β€” James E. Faust

The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel β€” Guru Gobind Singh

Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person. β€” Mark M. Ford

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value. β€” Carol S. Dweck

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false, and the false with the true. β€” Martin Luther King, Jr.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. β€” Ralph Ransom

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. β€” Joshua L. Liebman

Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. β€” Michael E. DeBakey

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. β€” Marcel Wanders

Moral Ethics Quotes

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. β€” Immanuel Kant

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion. β€” Bill Nye

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. β€” Robert Noyce

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. β€” Eric Clapton

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. β€” Howard Cosell

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. β€” Stephen King

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. β€” Arthur Schopenhauer

You can’t have a moral society without sound money. β€” Robert Breedlove

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society. β€” Aga Khan IV

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. β€” A.J. Ayer

Moral Issues Quotes

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment. β€” Massimo Vignelli

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. β€” Fulton J. Sheen

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. β€” George C. Marshall

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. β€” Pope Benedict XVI

Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white. β€” Gad Saad

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. β€” John F. Kennedy

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue. β€” Bernie Sanders

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. β€” Theodore Roosevelt

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue. β€” James Hansen

I should be able to express moral views on social issues without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach β€˜tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square. β€” Kirk Cameron

Moral Principles Quotes

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. β€” Mahatma Gandhi

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. β€” Fulton J. Sheen

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments. β€” James Madison

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. β€” George Washington

If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day. β€” George Whitefield

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will. β€” Berry Gordy

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. β€” Voltairine de Cleyre

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. β€” Peter Kreeft

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality. β€” Thomas Sowell

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment. β€” Maxine Hong Kingston

Moral Beliefs Quotes

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. β€” Ravi Zacharias

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. β€” Emile Durkheim

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? β€” Barry Goldwater

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. β€” John W. Gardner

We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil. β€” Benjamin Netanyahu

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role. β€” Clarence Thomas

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. β€” Nathaniel Branden

No amount of belief makes something a fact. β€” James Randi

We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your insistence on man's moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves. β€” George W. Bush

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations. β€” Margaret E. Knight

Religious Values Quotes

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. β€” Joyce Meyer

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. β€” Deepak Chopra

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection. β€” Pope John Paul II

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another. β€” Gad Saad

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. β€” Lafcadio Hearn

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy. β€” Paul Kurtz

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody. β€” William Bennett

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value. β€” Albert Einstein

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. β€” Mike Ferguson

Traditional Judeo-Christian values literally hang in the balance in America. They can be 'forgotten' in a single generation if they are not taught to children and teenagers... It could happen here if we don't defend what we believe. β€” James Dobson

Christian Values Quotes

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. - Saint Augustine

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. β€” Saint Augustine

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't! β€” John Fugelsang

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things. β€” John of the Cross

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him? β€” Charles Stanley

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. β€” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had. β€” Bernard Lewis

Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values. - Albert Mohler

Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values. β€” Albert Mohler

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. β€” Barack Obama

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. β€” Mark Twain

Coercion is evil precisely because it eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another. β€” Friedrich August von Hayek

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A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. β€” Bernie Sanders

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. β€” Shimon Peres

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. β€” John Lewis

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. β€” Konrad Lorenz

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. β€” John Adams

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. β€” Abraham Joshua Heschel

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Improve the World Through Music. β€” Plato

Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap. β€” Jhene Aiko

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. β€” Dwight D. Eisenhower

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. β€” Otto von Bismarck

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things? β€” Antonin Scalia

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change. β€” Robert Kennedy

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. β€” J. Edgar Hoover

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. β€” Emmeline Pankhurst

Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church! β€” Stone Cold Steve Austin

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. β€” Noah Webster

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian. β€” Bhagat Singh

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