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A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor! — Sathya Sai Baba

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. — Abba Eban

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves — Augustine Of Hippo

Considering some of the things I've done, touching another man's dick is not exactly going to send me into a moral meltdown. — Santino Hassell

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. — John Stuart Mill

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable. — Confucius

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary. — John Stuart Mill

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. — Immanuel Kant

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man. — Thomas Jefferson

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly. — Immanuel Kant

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation ... — Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy. — Anthony Daniels

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system. — Lee Kuan Yew

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress. — Clement Attlee

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. — Nathanael Emmons

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences — G.K. Chesterton

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being — Bruce Lee

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor. — George Bernard Shaw

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on. — Henry Ward Beecher

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. — H.L. Mencken

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. — Henry David Thoreau

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings

No man is a man without high morals and ethics. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose. — Michael R. French

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him. — Dwight L. Moody

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason. — Samuel Pisar

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. — Giancarlo Esposito

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D.H. Lawrence

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions. — Henning Von Tresckow

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. — Thomas Jefferson

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral — Dallin H. Oaks

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. — Charles Sumner

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland. — Democritus

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. — James Henry Breasted

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral. — Tim O'Brien

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance. — David Novak

No man's religion ever survives his morals. — Robert South

The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force. — Lao-Tzu

The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself. — Billy Graham

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will. — Swami Vivekananda

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup. — Dennis Adonis

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others. — Jodi Picoult

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. — Betty Friedan

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself. — Immanuel Kant

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. — Logan Lerman

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral - everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief. — Andrew Holleran

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. — Ambrose Bierce

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them. — Henry Ward Beecher

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

As a life long vegetarian I believe that since man cannot give life he has no moral right to take it away. — Ketevan Gogelia

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. — Dorothy Kilgallen

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition. — Adam Smith

I think I am a moral man. — Gary Condit

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans

Everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is. — Anne Rice

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. — Michelangelo Antonioni

The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man. — James Thurber

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? — Aaron B. Powell

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. — Omar N. Bradley

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest. — Marquis De Sade

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. — Lucy Stone

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier

I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment. — G.K. Chesterton

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement. — Thomas Robert Malthus

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. — Lao-Tzu

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — Ayn Rand

A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom. — Samuel Johnson

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. — Ayn Rand

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature. — Joseph Hertz

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense. — F Scott Fitzgerald