Morality Quotes · Page 27

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

— Thomas Jefferson

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

— P.D. Ouspensky

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

— Wynton Marsalis

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

— William Sloane Coffin

“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Free markets, hard work, and morality will benefit blacks and all Americans.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if,…

— Donna Tartt

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding…

— Dallin H. Oaks

For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable:…

— Ellen Willis

“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it…

— Anthony Burgess

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference…

— Mark Hoppus

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates…

— Anonymous

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are…

— Linus Torvalds

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered…

— Jonathan Haidt

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the…

— Ronald Reagan

In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty…

— Alexander Nehamas

“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions…

— Jean Vanier

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which…

— Georg Brandes

Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one…

— Elvis Mitchell

In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal…

— John Kleinig

“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when…

— James Wood

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

— Julian Baggini

“Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The moralist of sheer work and obedience can be an ethic that, unwilling to face a despair of its ends, glorifies its…

— Anonymous

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.

— Blaise Pascal

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

— Simone Weil

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

— Walter E. Williams

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

— Ray Bradbury

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

— Herbert Hoover

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

— Virginia Woolf

“A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.”

— Joshua Loth Liebman

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

— C. S. Lewis

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Henry David Thoreau