Moral Quotes

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

When people say “the people” or “the public” as though it’s the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

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

I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.