Morality Quotes · Page 25

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

— Gary Bauer

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

— Linus Torvalds

Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist.

— Arsenio V Manalo Jr

I’m accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows

— Peter Woodcock

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

— Cal Thomas

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

— Auguste Rodin

“It's always easier to lecture other people about morality when you've never had to answer for anything yourself.”

— Fredrik Backman

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and…

— Charles Kingsley

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.”

— Bertrand Russell

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something…

— Mark Twain

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,…

— David Hume

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, ……

— Anonymous

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which…

— John Adams

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent…

— Boris Sidis

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of…

— Ayn Rand

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds…

— Walter Mosley

I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary…

— Richard Rohr

We're trying to win business by doing a good job for the clients, as opposed to, "We think being big and universal…

— Jamie Dimon

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the…

— Harrison Ford

The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues…

— William Howard Taft

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

— Oprah Winfrey

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

— David Horowitz

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically…

— Mark Twain

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

— Dalai Lama

I'd rather tell you an unpleasant truth that would make you hate me than tell you a lie that would make you…

— Darl Candia

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.”

— Janine Turner

“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.”

— Mahavira

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

— Jo Nesbo

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

— Lauren DeStefano

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.”

— Barry Schwartz

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

— Mark Twain

“Ethics is not about the way things are, it's about the way they ought to be.”

— Michael Josephson

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

— William Butler Yeats