Morality Quotes · Page 54

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

— Izaak Walton

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

— Lela Loren

“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.”

— Adam Gidwitz

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not…

— Julian Baggini

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

— Peter McWilliams

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”

— Charlotte Bronte

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

— Albert Camus

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and…

— Barack Obama

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can…

— Joseph Stalin

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my…

— James Ellroy

“If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well.…

— Patrick N. Allitt

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own…

— Patrick Swift

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of…

— Sai Baba

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

— John Adams

...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally…

— Juan Somavia

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal…

— Karl Marx

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on…

— Albert Einstein

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than…

— Eve Forward

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken…

— Richard Dawkins

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”

— Alexander Pope

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

— Herbert Spencer

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

— Moliere

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

— Horace Bushnell

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you…

— Samuel Johnson

“If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.”

— Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never compromise your morals for anyone or anything or you'll surely regret it.

— Sonya Parker

“Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.”

— Timothy Keller

“The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.”

— Brian Awehali

“But human flesh is weak. And the human spirit is weak as well — before curiosity, before desire, before doubt.”

— Ruslana Pidsadiuk

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

— Anne Lamott

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior.

— Isaac Thomas