Morality Quotes

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

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

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

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

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

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 temporary, wisdom is permanent.

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

Cowards can never be moral.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.