Morality Quotes

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

You can't legislate morality.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

I think all we should legislate is morality.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Morality does not depend on religion.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Morality binds and blinds.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

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

Ego is vital but not noble.

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.

Religion gets in the way of morality.

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.