Morality Quotes · Page 43

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

— John Ruskin

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

— Alan Arkin

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

— Lillian Hellman

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

— Georges Braque

“From what I can tell, morality is a word. Nothing more. There're the things people do when others are watching and the…

— Stephanie Kuehn

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's…

— Phil Ochs

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something…

— George Eliot

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That…

— Norman Mailer

“If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin…

— Shannon L. Alder

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,

— James MacGregor Burns

“The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the…

— Ovadya ben Malka

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of…

— Robert Southey

“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become…

— Kevin L. Michel

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise…

— George Washington

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you…

— Henry Miller

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter…

— Thomas Jefferson

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based…

— Albert J. Nock

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“I still had a lot of practical medicine to learn, but would knowledge alone be enough, with life and death hanging in…

— Paul Kalanithi

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

— C. S. Lewis

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

— Virginia Woolf

“A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.”

— Joshua Loth Liebman

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

— Herbert Hoover

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

— Simone Weil

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

— Ray Bradbury

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

— Walter E. Williams

“We should always assist our friends and enemies in order to create a decent social environment.”

— Saaif Alam

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

— Walter Savage Landor

“The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.”

— Kirby Anderson

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

— Brad Warner

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes…

— Khalil Gibran

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

— G. D. H. Cole

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

— Max Lerner