Morality Quotes

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

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

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

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

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.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.