Moral Quotes

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.