Top Moral Quotes
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.
Plato
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
Tom Allen
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor 
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Francis Wright
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Arthur Holly Compton
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
Michel de Montaigne
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Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
Moshe Sharett
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
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Popular Moral Authors
Henry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyMark TwainOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheMohandas GandhiLucius Annaeus SenecaThomas Jefferson PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleGilbert K. ChestertonFrancis Bacon
Blaise PascalBertrand RussellRonald ReaganJohn RuskinMartin Luther King, Jr.Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceJohn F. KennedyAldous HuxleyBarack ObamaRobert Louis StevensonEdmund BurkeCharles Caleb ColtonOliver Wendell HolmesErnest Hemingway
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