Moral Values Quotes

• Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

  Sivananda

  Law, Religion, Culture

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• Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

  Vaclav Havel

  Government, Law, Moral

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• The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Usa, America, Moral

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• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Mom, Mother

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• We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Appreciate, Individuality

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• I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

  Jose Carreras

  Strong, Theatre, Lucky

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• I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.

  Howard Dean

  Strong, Roots, Order

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• Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Moral, Human Nature

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.845, Best Books on

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• About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.

  James Gilligan

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  Ma Jian

  People, Moral, Values

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• When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.

  Fred Bear

  God, Sarcastic, Hunting

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• The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Moral, Values

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• That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Economics, Disregard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.118, A&C Black

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• Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Humanity, Moral

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• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Inferiority, Moral

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Moral, Values

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• The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral, Cult, Revolt

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.74, Penguin

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• Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Voters, Moral, Social

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• Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in the Judeo-Christian tradition. I think that is roughly, not unerringly, the outline of what I would call natural law.There must be some moral values underlying any civilization; that's my guide.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Moral, Tradition

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Principles, Moral

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• I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Morality, Judgment

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• How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Views, Political

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• What is moral is what you feel good after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the country are idyllic, suffused with good old American values, social values, religious values, moral values. It's what we tell ourselves to keep this political power structure in place, and it's what we see in pop culture, too.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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