Morality Quotes

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.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

‎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.

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?

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

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

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

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Ego is vital but not noble.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."