Morality Quotes · Page 38

“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.”

— Arthur F. Holmes

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

— Howard Cosell

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads…

— Kabir

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

— S.C. Stephens

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

— John Stuart Mill

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask…

— David Bezmozgis

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal…

— Walter Benjamin

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and…

— Travis Culliton

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop…

— Jane Porter

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of…

— Steven Pinker

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

— Andrew Young

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents…

— Greta Gerwig

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar…

— Samuel Johnson

“This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look…

— Aleister Crowley

It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's…

— Arundhati Roy

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite…

— Guido von List

Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at…

— Karen Armstrong

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person.…

— Paul Tillich

“Given our obsession with self, it is hardly surprising we think it is fine for us to live in a world with…

— Stephen McAndrew

“Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.”

— M.R. Graham

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

— Silvio Berlusconi

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a…

— Bertolt Brecht

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”

— Richie Norton

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

— Maria Edgeworth

There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and intelligence.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

— Charles Spurgeon

Morality doesnt suit itself when one human being is obeying the laws of morality

— Loferson Odele

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

— Adam Weishaupt

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

— Thomas Paine

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

— John Locke

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

— Joseph Addison