Morality Quotes

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

First the pork chops, then morality

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Morality is a personal matter.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.