Morality Quotes · Page 32

“Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.”

— isaac asimov

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

— Karen Horney

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

— Irving Stone

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill

“Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God

— Voltaire

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

— Lee R. Raymond

“Bear in mind, practice is more important than principle. Principles without practice is worthless. Humans of principles may get famous for a…

— Abhijit Naskar

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels…

— Horace Greeley

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous…

— Friedrich Schiller

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all…

— Alan Dershowitz

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much…

— Anonymous

John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George…

— Joe Lieberman

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong.…

— Pamela Warrick

“One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those…

— Daniel Willey

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar…

— Arundhati Roy

Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the…

— William Howard Taft

I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits…

— Dalai Lama

Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion…

— Alan Dershowitz

“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution]…

— G.M. Jackson

I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment…

— David Katz

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When elders feel rejuvenated, they would be able to increase their self esteem in order to perform their tasks in life.

— Saaif Alam

“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

— Brad Warner

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

— Oscar Wilde

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

— Ken Ham

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

— Elizabeth I

“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.”

— Fay Weldon

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“If a bully mocks you, just think about your positive values compared to the bully and ignore his or her harsh comments.”

— Saaif Alam

Do what you think is right, not what people think is right. In the end, it's you who go through it, not…

— Bilal Zahoor

“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”

— Steven J. Carroll

“all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

— Michael Shermer

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson