It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. – Michael Leunig
Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn’t much of a president. – Molly Ivins
It’s the community that helps form our moral compass. It’s those attitudes that I’ve remembered through my entire lifetime. – John Morgridge
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. – John Strachan
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. – Mahatma Gandhi
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I’m sorry, but it’s really annoying. We don’t discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended. – Kevin DeYoung
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can’t kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world. – Lynn Coady
I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard. – Kimberly Quinn
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional. – Louise Erdrich
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings. – Jayson Blair
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. – John Yarmuth
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. – John Strachan
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. – Kenneth Scott Latourette
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. – Mahatma Gandhi
Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn’t be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won’t and it doesn’t. – John Key
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own. – Michelle Obama
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. – Karl Lagerfeld
One of my favourite films is called ‘Lacombe Lucien,’ directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many ’70s and ’80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him. – Joe Cornish
We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price. – Joel C. Rosenberg
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. – Johann Georg Zimmermann
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. – James Callis