Morality Quotes · Page 43

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

— Herbert Hoover

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

— Simone Weil

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

— Ray Bradbury

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

— Walter E. Williams

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

— Lillian Hellman

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

— C. S. Lewis

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no…

— Bertrand Russell

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It…

— Jennifer Granholm

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs --…

— Linus Pauling

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So…

— Peter Singer

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may…

— Laura Schlessinger

When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful…

— Steve Coogan

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking…

— Oscar Wilde

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching…

— Max Stirner

“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunnaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the…

— Hammurabi

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue…

— Horace Bushnell

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…

— Ayn Rand

“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American…

— James Baldwin

“When we are conscious with morality and our duty, we become unpopular as many wish to believe in making matters to their…

— Dr.T.V.Rao MD

Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out…

— Rajneesh

“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should…

— Charles Bowden

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

— Frans de Waal

“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.”

— B.S. Murthy

“It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.”

— Frans de Waal

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

— Henry David Thoreau

The morality belongs in larger share to the poor than to the rich.

— Mariana Fulger

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

— Herbert Read

If you want to live in a world without judgmentalism, it also means living in a world without morality and decency.

— John Hawkins

“Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.”

— Saaif Alam

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then…

— C. S. Lewis

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You dont need religion to have morals. If you cant determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.

— Anonymous

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

— Ravi Zacharias

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

— St. Jerome

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

— Henry Steele Commager

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

— Walter Savage Landor