Morality Quotes

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.