Morality Quotes

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

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

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.

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

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

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

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

The world has far too much morality.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Health is the requisite after morality

Morality is not a spectator sport.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

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

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

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.