Morality Quotes

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

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

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

A rational process is a moral process.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

I say, break the law.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Never presume yours is a better morality.