Morality Quotes · Page 26

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

— Osamu Dazai

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

— Michael Josephson

“When mystical elements are introduced into morality, the whole system ends up being corrupted.”

— Al Stefanelli

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

— Anonymous

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

— Kane Morgan

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

— Kenzaburo Oe

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

— Samuel Butler

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

— Seth MacFarlane

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no…

— Woodrow Wilson

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions…

— Peter Singer

“Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance.…

— Robin R. Meyers

“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are…

— Ian Buruma

“. . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics,…

— Jodi Picoult

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in…

— Thomas Hardy

“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which…

— Douglas Wilson

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the…

— Fred Bear

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which…

— John Stuart Mill

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is…

— Mark Hopkins

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about…

— Saint Augustine

“When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our…

— David G. McAfee

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him.…

— Henry David Thoreau

[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values…

— Ronald Reagan

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

— Ayn Rand

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral…

— James MacGregor Burns

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

— Berkeley Breathed

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

— Potter Stewart

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

— Janusz Korczak

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

— Ezra Pound

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”

— Immanuel Kant

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

— Michael Moore

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

— Jennifer Stone

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

— George Washington

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

— Florence Nightingale

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

— Noam Chomsky

“If you have talent, but no morality-monkey riding upon your back, then, of course, this is where you should stop.”

— Kat Lowe

“The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage.”

— Alfred C. Kinsey

“On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.”

— George R.R. Martin