Morality famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
-- A.J. Ayer -
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
-- Adrian Cadbury -
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
-- African Spir -
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
-- African Spir -
History is not written in the interests of morality.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
-- Alain de Botton -
The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
-- Albert Camus -
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
-- Albert Einstein -
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
-- Aleister Crowley -
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore
-- Alex Carey -
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.
-- Alice Bag -
Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.
-- Alison Roberta Noble Neilans -
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
-- Andre Weil -
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
-- Archibald Alexander -
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
-- Armstrong Williams -
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?
-- Asghar Farhadi -
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
-- Auguste Rodin -
The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
-- Ayn Rand -
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
-- Barbara Holland -
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
-- Ben Elton -
The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.
-- Bernard Lazare -
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
-- Bertrand Russell -
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
-- Bill Condon -
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
-- Bill Mollison -
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
-- Blaise Pascal -
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
-- Blaise Pascal -
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.
-- Bob Hawke -
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
-- Brad Warner -
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.
-- Brad Warner -
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.
-- Brian Aldiss -
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
-- Brian Dennehy -
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.
-- Brock Chisholm -
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
-- Cal Thomas -
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.
-- Candy Darling -
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
-- Chester Barnard -
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
-- Clarence Day -
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
-- Corliss Lamont -
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
-- Corliss Lamont -
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.
-- David Chipperfield -
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
-- David Gergen -
Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.
-- David Gerrold -
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
-- David Harsanyi -
Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.
-- David Horowitz -
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
-- David McCullough -
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
-- Derek Freeman -
Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
-- Diana Gabaldon -
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.
-- Don Richardson -
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
-- Donald Judd -
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
-- Edward Albee -
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
-- Elizabeth I -
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
-- Elliot S. Maggin -
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
-- Emile Durkheim -
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
-- Emmanuel Levinas -
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
-- Eric Alterman -
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
-- Erica Jong -
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
-- Fanny Fern -
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
-- Fidel Castro -
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
-- Frances Wright -
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
-- Frans de Waal -
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
-- Frans de Waal -
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
-- Freda Adler
