Morality Quotes · Page 34

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

— Charles Spurgeon

Morality doesnt suit itself when one human being is obeying the laws of morality

— Loferson Odele

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

— Maria Edgeworth

There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and intelligence.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we…

— Roland Allen

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history…

— Philip Zimbardo

“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the…

— Clarice Lispector

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in…

— Janet Morris

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the…

— Bertrand Russell

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and…

— Allen W. Wood

Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and…

— Norah Vincent

“[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of…

— Mark Fisher

The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all…

— Sergey Nechayev

There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would…

— Gloria Steinem

My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out…

— Sam Hamill

“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not…

— H.L. Mencken

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:…

— John Kleinig

“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s…

— Terry Eagleton

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

— Immanuel Kant

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

— Richard Bach

“what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

— Nelson Mandela

A mans morality depends on how he treats his wife, children and friends, and how he lives his life.

— Anonymous

“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

— Randy Wayne White

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

— Shakuntala Devi

“There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.”

— Sue Grafton

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

— Robert Reich

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

— Garrett Hardin

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor