Morality Quotes · Page 31

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

— Joyce Carol Oates

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

— John Ridley

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

— Henry David Thoreau

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

— George W. Bush

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."

— Ivan Boesky

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

— Karl Kraus

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

— Penn Jillette

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

— Anonymous

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

— L. Frank Baum

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs…

— John Ziman

Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand…

— Cornel West

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of…

— Julia Gillard

“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here…

— Ronald Reagan

“The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for…

— Pascal

The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then…

— J. Budziszewski

“He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while…

— Saul Bellow

“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same…

— Christine de Pizan

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither…

— John Adams

“Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy,…

— Voltaire

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

— Albert Einstein

“The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of…

— L. Frank Baum

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

— Roland Barthes

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

— Albert Camus

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Max Allan Collins

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Leadership flourishes with innovation, intelligence, vision, honesty and doing the right things.

— Anil Sinha

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

— Paul Newman