Morality Quotes

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.