Quotes about Moral

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The various arguments for God show that there is only one God, not many. This God must be infinite since He is beyond the finite world He made. Further, He must be personal because He is both intelligent and moral, being the Intelligent Designer and the Moral Law Giver. Further, this God is spiritual and supernatural since He is beyond the physical and natural world. He can do miracles because He has already done the greatest miracle of all—He has created the world.

C. S. Lewis observed, if Christ is not God, then he could not have been an exemplary prophet or a great moral teacher, because he claimed to be God. If he was not who he said he was, then he was either a liar or a lunatic, hardly a great moral teacher or prophet.

But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.