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 individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances. – Emile Durkheim
I don’t have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show. – Derek Blasberg
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer
Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it’s number 1,000,000,001. – P. J. O’Rourke
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. – Edmond de Goncourt
The slogan ‘Never Again!’ that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone. – David Novak
Politicians, in many cases – their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you’re out of office, I guess you’re freed from those checks and balances. – Mark Leibovich
Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right. – Ehud Barak
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically. – Federica Montseny
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong. – F. Sionil Jose
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that. – David Hasselhoff
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. – Ezra Taft Benson
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. – Douglas Haig
Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. – Philip Roth
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
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. – Friedrich August von Hayek
The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position. – Murray Rothbard
Those who have prospered and profited from life’s lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. – Dick Gephardt
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil. – David Harsanyi
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences. – Muqtada al Sadr