Morality Quotes

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

Economics is not a morality play.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

What you get free costs too much.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.