Moral Tone Quotes

I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.

The last thing I ever want to do is be preachy.

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.

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

The President represents everybody and he sets the moral tone of the country.

Just maybe when the Weinstein scandal has run its course, progressives will discover the virtue of toning down their own excessive claims to righteousness.

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.

Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.