Morality Quotes · Page 48

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

— Bertolt Brecht

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

— Richie Norton

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

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

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about…

— Armond White

“the standard of morality is raised just in proportion as Buddha-nature or real self extends and amplifies itself in different times and…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to…

— Hugo Ball

“As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have…

— Lovecraft H.P

I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to…

— Michael Ian Black

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power…

— Michael J. Fox

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more…

— H. Jay Dinshah

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and…

— Walter Isaacson

“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

“We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who…

— Alain de Botton

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without…

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“To argue against abortion on the grounds that it prevents beings of high intrinsic value coming into the world is implicitly to…

— Peter Singer

“Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually.…

— Iain Banks

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw…

— Catherine Wilson

“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of…

— Bart Schultz

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Ayn Rand

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Richard Bach

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

“Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)”

— Jane Addams

“All my life I'd thought of myself as an essentially good person, but all I'd been was comfortable.”

— Molly Brown

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul