Morality Quotes

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

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

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

They judge lest they be judged.

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

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.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

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?

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

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

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

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.