Morality Quotes

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

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

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

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.

Morality is not respectability.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

We moralize among ruins.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

All religions are true but none are literal.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.