Morality Quotes

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

The market has no morality

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.