Morality Quotes

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

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

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

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

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

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

You can't legislate morality.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

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.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Conventionality is not morality.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Modern morality is all about perception.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating 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.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

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

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

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

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

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

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.