Morality Quotes · Page 36

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

— Herbert Spencer

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

— Jessica Valenti

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

— Jonah Hill

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

— Adam Savage

“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

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices,…

— Debbie Harry

In every human being, there is potential for good just as much as there is potential for evil. The choice is yours…

— Anonymous

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures,…

— David Suchet

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

— Bertrand Russell

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually…

— Anonymous

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out…

— Jeremy Bentham

“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of…

— Criss Jami

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green.…

— G.K. Chesterton

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories…

— Charles Fourier

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.…

— Alexander Pope

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,…

— Samuel

“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society…

— Bryant McGill

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

— Aristotle

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

— Karl Kraus

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

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

— Noël Coward

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

— Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

“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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Confucius

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

— H. L. Mencken

“The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn’t offer anything besides itself.”

— Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

— Paul Ryan

“Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.”

— Anonymous