Morality Quotes · Page 20

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding…

— Dallin H. Oaks

“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”

— Kakuzō Okakura

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

— Jose Bergamin

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence…

— Ian Mcewan

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

— Emma Goldman

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.”

— Chris Hedges

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

— C. S. Lewis

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

— Robert A. Heinlein

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it…

— Thomas Carlyle

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as…

— Ronald Dworkin

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good…

— Immanuel Kant

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing…

— Brock Chisholm

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything…

— Sergey Nechayev

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

— Lord Acton

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity…

— Rollo May

Thunder Strikes on those who put themselves above everybody else.

— Joseph Mulder

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

— Margaret Deland

“When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.

— Morris Mandel

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim…

— Paul Bloom

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

— Anonymous

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time…

— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

— Austin Phelps