Moral Quotes

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.