Moral Ideals Quotes

#1. We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

Edwin J. Delattre

#2. Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#3. Progress, properly understood, has, indeed, a most dignified and legitimate meaning. But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

Robert P. George

#5. 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

#6. The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#7. Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Ralph Nader

#8. The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

James Madison

#9. Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

Ivan Turgenev

#10. Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging
but that weren't sweet.

Miles Davis

#11. Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Dan Phillips

#12. Do you believe in magic?" -R,Annarasumanara

Ha Il Kwon

#13. What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

Bob Dole

#14. While boys are taught that the things that make them men
good men
are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs. Literally.

Jessica Valenti

#15. Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment - only personal accomplishment is applauded.

Cornel West

#16. The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#17. Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I
don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you. - Vane

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Jean Paul

#19. We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

Tryon Edwards

#20. Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.

Wallace D. Wattles

#21. Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#22. I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

Anne McCaffrey

#23. The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Whitney M. Young

#24. There is evidence for the deity of Jesus
good, strong,
historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest
person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

John R.W. Stott

#25. Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Mitt Romney