Morality Quotes · Page 53

Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".

— Richard Summerbell

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

— Ayn Rand

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used…

— Peter Singer

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”

— Zaman Ali

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

— Mark Twain

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not…

— William T. Vollmann

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it…

— Peter van Agtmael

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only tend to elate…

— Currer Bell

At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one's nation, of one's ideology, of one's morality,…

— Anne Applebaum

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any…

— Jaggi Vasudev

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but…

— Madame de Stael

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is…

— Joanna Lumley

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also…

— Albert Einstein

The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear…

— Henry David Thoreau

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally…

— Andrew Bernstein

You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,…

— Criss Jami

The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the…

— Linda Gordon

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

— Neal Stephenson

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”

— Martin Cohen

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

— Jaggi Vasudev

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

— Garrett Hardin

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

— Madame de Stael

“We never raised the morality of the action, because our politics took care of that.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

— Anonymous

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

— Linus Pauling

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

— Timothy Keller

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

— Bertrand Russell

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

— Julian Baggini