Morality Quotes

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

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

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

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

What can laws do without morals?

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Conventionality is not morality.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.