Moral Quotes (953 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Edward Zwick
„Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.“
― Edward Zwick ―
Picture of quotation author Johann Georg Zimmermann
„A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.“
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Xun Zi
„Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.“
― Xun Zi ―
Picture of quotation author Xun Zi
„When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.“
― Xun Zi ―
Picture of quotation author Vladimir Zhirinovsky
„The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.“
Picture of quotation author Clara Zetkin
„We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.“
― Clara Zetkin ―
Picture of quotation author Ravi Zacharias
„Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.“
― Ravi Zacharias ―
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.“
Picture of quotation author Andrew Young
„Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.“
― Andrew Young ―
Picture of quotation author Andrew Young
„In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.“
― Andrew Young ―
Picture of quotation author Aden Young
„In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.“
― Aden Young ―
Picture of quotation author Yevgeny Yevtushenko
„Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.“
Picture of quotation author William Butler Yeats
„Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.“
Picture of quotation author John Yarmuth
„Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.“
― John Yarmuth ―
Picture of quotation author Joe Wright
„Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.“
― Joe Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Frances Wright
„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.“
― Frances Wright ―
Picture of quotation author William Wordsworth
„One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.“
Picture of quotation author Jim Woodring
„I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.“
― Jim Woodring ―

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