Morals Quotes
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.