Morality Quotes · Page 50

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

“It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important”

— Margherita Hack

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

— Alice Bag

“Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.”

— Matthew Jarpe

“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.”

— Willard Van Orman Quine

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

— Jonah Goldberg

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”

— Glenn Beck

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

— Roger Penrose

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,…

— Charles Dickens

“To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to…

— Steven M. Cahn

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now…

— Anonymous

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Many people who think nothing of buying factory-farmed ham or chicken from a supermarket are quick to condemn hunting; yet hunting is…

— Peter Singer

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe,…

— John Adams

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit…

— Ronald Reagan

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tells us…

— William Lane Craig

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into…

— Barry McGuire

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that…

— Robert Greene

... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had…

— Friedrich St. Florian

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at…

— Leo Tolstoy

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

— Ayn Rand

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and…

— Albert Schweitzer

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

— Phil Robertson

There is some kind of weird idea people have, that morals are objective truths

— Anonymous

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

— Agnes Moorehead

“And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

— Mona Eltahawy

“You can never be in too far to turn back and do the right thing.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

— Paul Tillich

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

— Greg Howard

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

— Sigmund Freud

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

— Jeremy Bentham

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever…

— E. W. Howe

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

— Milan Kundera