Morality Quotes · Page 46

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit…

— Henepola Gunaratana

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

— Zack Snyder

Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast…

— Michael Cisco

Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist.

— Arsenio V Manalo Jr

[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values…

— Ronald Reagan

“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.…

— Abhijit Naskar

Bad company ruins good morals.

— Paul the Apostle

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe,…

— John Adams

“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was.…

— Teju Cole

Feelings and emotions are unstable. And should never be the reason for your decisions and choices that you make. It cannot be…

— Geraldine Vermaak

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It…

— Jennifer Granholm

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching…

— Sissela Bok

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it…

— David Starkey

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that…

— Richard Marshall

There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life,…

— Moshe Katsav

Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the…

— Frederick C. Beiser

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Morals exist in those who understand the gift of life.

— Jasmina Siderovski

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would…

— James Anthony Froude

The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first…

— Thomas G. West

Compassion is the basis of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

— Ayn Rand