Moral Standard Quotes

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

There is no maxim ... which is more liable to be misapplied ... than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

No matter how high a moral standard a community may attain, the introduction in that community of any considerable number of persons of a lower moral tone will cause a general moral deterioration just as sure as night follows a day. The intermarriage of a lower with a higher type certainly does not improve the latter any more than does the breeding of cattle by blooded and common stock improve the blooded stock generally.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.

Homosexuality is a violation of God's standard.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible - at least, it's not possible if we continue the American tradition of true individual freedom, which also implies individual responsibility. Without an objective moral standard, that's not possible.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

I am playing a superhero for kids, and I don't want them to think I'm some dirty fool.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.