Morally Right Quotes

#1. 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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Sarah Moore Grimke

#4. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#6. 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

#7. One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

Joan Robinson

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

Penn Jillette

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Paddy Chayefsky

#14. 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

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

Kathryn Schulz

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Liam Neeson

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

Vince Flynn

#21. 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

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

Jodi Picoult

#23. You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Michael Bloomberg

#25. You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

Josh Fox

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

Gail Collins

#29. Inwardly she argued with herself, reflecting that it never ended well when one did something morally questionable for the right reasons.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Daniel O'Connell

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

Karen Swallow Prior

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

Jack Wagner

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

Barbra Streisand

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Idris Elba

#41. Warmakers are often wrong ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

David Cortright

#42. 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

#43. Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right - creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

Thomas Sowell

#44. Morally, no one has the right to judge anyone else. But legally, it's not a right - it's a responsibility.

Jodi Picoult

#45. Most things that are politically right are morally wrong

Lupe Fiasco

#46. Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good
we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know
and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

W. H. Auden

#47. If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Annie Lennox

#48. That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Nicole Kidman

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Daniel O'Connell

#52. 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

#53. There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

Helen Rowland

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

William E. Gladstone

#55. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

J.D. Salinger

#56. 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

#57. You have a deep desire to be right all of the time and a deeper desire to see yourself in a positive light both morally and behaviorally. You can stretch your mind pretty far to achieve these goals.

David McRaney