Morality Quotes · Page 32

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

— Alexander Pope

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

— Ayn Rand

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

— Mary Hunter Austin

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Im more afraid of living the wrong way, than dying the right life...

— Anonymous

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

— Stephen Hillenburg

“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.”

— James W Sire

Integrity is adherence to moral ethics, being honest to yourself, to stand for the right things, to value the principle of truthfulness…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

I believe in morality, which is doing right regardless of what I am told...not in religion which is doing what I am…

— Nishan Panwar

The only prescription for morality is this: Remember that every woman could have been your mother, every girl could be your daughter.…

— Anonymous

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

— Fisher Ames

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality…

— Robert Ardrey

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The…

— Thomas Watson

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,…

— Edmund Burke

“Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable…

— Robertson Davies

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to…

— Criss Jami

“And we remember that there must be a balance. No birth without death. No life without tears. What is taken from the…

— Jessica Khoury

“Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

— Jodi Picoult

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward…

— Albert Einstein

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

— Llewelyn Powys

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

— Mohanlal

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

— Peter Dunne

“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

— Karl Kraus

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

— Lady Randolph Churchill

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

— Anonymous

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

— George Washington

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

— Austin O'Malley

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera