Morality Quotes

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Women are the guardians of morality.

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

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

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.

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

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".