Morality Quotes

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

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

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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