Morality Quotes

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

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

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

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

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

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

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.