Morality Quotes

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.