Morality Quotes

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

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

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.

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.

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

[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."

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."

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

For a poet, style is the only morality.