No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.
It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning--and we will not be free again until we get it back.