Is Morally Right Quotes

#1. If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

Ken Bruen

#3. Whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#4. Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Ronald Reagan

#6. I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

Penn Jillette

#7. Perhaps there is a simple answer
not an easy answer
but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

Ronald Reagan

#8. Often, our beliefs about what is factually right and our beliefs about what is morally right are entirely inextricable.

Kathryn Schulz

#9. It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.

Arthur Goldberg

#10. We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

Vin Suprynowicz

#11. Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

Vince Flynn

#12. Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms ...

Andrew Jackson

#13. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. You had no right." "Ah, the morally outraged cry of the weak: You're not 'allowed' to do that. One is allowed to do anything one can get away with. Only when you understand that will you know your place in this world. And your power. Might is right.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

Ban Ki-moon

#16. Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Daniel O'Connell

#17. It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.65

Karen Swallow Prior

#18. Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Thomas Aquinas

#19. After all these years of listening to you rant about Prince Dickhead, I want to meet him for myself. (Francesca)
Fine, but remember to avert your gaze from his. He'll suck the goodness right out of the marrow of your bones and leave you as morally bankrupt as he is. (Esperetta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Rocco Buttiglione

#21. The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.

Meredith Brooks

#22. Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

Barbra Streisand

#23. There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.

Samuel Gompers

#24. I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Abraham Lincoln

#25. For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong.

Peter Kreeft

#26. Shall I tell you why young men love war? ... In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer ... Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

Mary Doria Russell

#27. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Henry Ford

#28. Morally, the promise of an impossible "right" to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don't.

Ayn Rand

#29. Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Linus Torvalds

#30. There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Daniel O'Connell

#31. In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,
if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,
and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. What's morally right is considered wrong ... and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.

Jodi Picoult

#33. Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone

#34. The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

Gary L. Francione

#35. This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

Lars Ulrich

#36. Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

George Osborne

#37. We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

Margaret Thatcher