Morality Quotes

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.