Morality Quotes · Page 42

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Jesse Lee Peterson

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

— Julian Baggini

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

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

— Bertrand Russell

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely…

— Derrick Jensen

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong…

— Sonali Bendre

“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is…

— Max Weber

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody…

— Wesley Morris

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Albert Einstein

“When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the…

— Jeff Schweitzer

The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous…

— Charlie Munger

There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person,…

— David Tennant

Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.…

— Ford Madox Ford

“If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for…

— Socrates

“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self…

— Awdhesh Singh

“Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it's to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do…

— John MacArthur

Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there’s just what you can do, and what you can’t.”

— Barry Eisler

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“We should always assist our friends and enemies in order to create a decent social environment.”

— Saaif Alam

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.”

— Kirby Anderson

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

— Brad Warner

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

— Walter Savage Landor

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

— Max Lerner

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

— Blaise Pascal

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes…

— Khalil Gibran

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

— G. D. H. Cole

Thunder Strikes on those who put themselves above everybody else.

— Joseph Mulder

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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