Morality Quotes · Page 33

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not…

— Alexander Herzen

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

— George William Russell

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

— Anonymous

An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

— Marvin Minsky

We are all mortal till the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

— Eduardo Galeano

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

— Stewart Udall

“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

— Dwight L. Moody

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those…

— Antonio Damasio

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

— Michael Shermer

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another…

— James MacGregor Burns

“To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To…

— Jessica Khoury

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a…

— Edward Albee

“It wasn’t as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation…

— Teresa Mummert

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And…

— Dalai Lama

We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we…

— John Taylor

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of…

— John Quincy Adams

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral…

— Margaret Halsey

“Everybody has got their own definition of Morality and Religion. We all have modified it as per our convenience. Little alcohol is…

— Honeya

I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how…

— Jonathan Haidt

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those…

— Thomas Jefferson

A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion…

— Thomas Huxley

So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing…

— Albert Mohler

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

— Arundhati Roy

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

— Robert A. Heinlein

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

— Anonymous

“Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with…

— Idries Shah

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”

— Richie Norton

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a…

— Bertolt Brecht

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

— Silvio Berlusconi

“Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.”

— M.R. Graham

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

— Madame de Stael

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

— Joseph Addison

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

— John Locke

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

— Thomas Paine

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

— Adam Weishaupt

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence