Morality Quotes · Page 38

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

— Carl F. H. Henry

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

— Christopher Hitchens

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

— Max Weber

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

— Armstrong Williams

“There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.”

— Jon Erickson

“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.”

— Peter Singer

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity…

— Christopher Fry

Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign…

— Criss Jami

To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we…

— Roy Moore

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become…

— Samuel Richardson

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to…

— Thomas Aquinas

“We take comfort in the notion of an unbridgeable gulf between good and evil, but maybe we should understand, as Zimbardo's work…

— Shane Bauer

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting…

— Henry A. Kissinger

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…

— Louis Kronenberger

“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in…

— Edwin A. Abbott

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by…

— Albert Einstein

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical…

— Henry David Thoreau

The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than…

— Paul G. Quinnett

“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as…

— Steven Erikson

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Anais Nin

Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't…

— Dan Barker

A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond…

— Grover Cleveland

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God

— Voltaire

“Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.”

— isaac asimov

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

— Paul Newman

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

— Karen Horney

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

— Irving Stone

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

— Brad Warner

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

— Clare Boothe Luce

“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

— Oscar Wilde