Morality Quotes · Page 28

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

— Armstrong Williams

“The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.”

— Alfred Alcorn

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

— Karl Kraus

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

— Aristotle

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.”

— Amit Kalantri

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

— Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…

— Eric Alterman

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work…

— J. A. Spender

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control,…

— Bill Maher

“it maybe brilliancy to change partner time to time as per required of sex and money.as par demand of sex mind and…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.” Potter…

— Max Allan Collins

The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for…

— A.J. Ayer

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we…

— Billy Graham

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should…

— Maria Montessori

“So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's…

— Catherine Camus

“This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament,…

— Sam Harris

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just…

— C.S. Lewis

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or…

— Ludwig von Mises

Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts…

— George Washington

“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”

— Noël Coward

“The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.”

— Terry Pratchett

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

— George Bernard Shaw

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

— Gilles Deleuze

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

— Confucius

“Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.”

— Bryant McGill

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

— Adam Savage

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

— Jonah Hill

“Prostitutes hire out one tiny portion of their bodies. Employees sell countless huge portions of their lives.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

— Karl Kraus

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

— Maria Edgeworth

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

— David Harsanyi

“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”

— Bertrand Russell