Morality Quotes · Page 46

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

— Elizabeth I

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

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

— isaac asimov

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

— Paul Newman

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

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense…

— Rachel Griffiths

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Whether we know it or not, each of us lives a life governed by an internalized code of conduct. Some call it…

— Anonymous

“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends…

— Geoffrey Wood

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they…

— John Dewey

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these…

— C. S. Lewis

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the…

— Ayn Rand

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people…

— Mary Matalin

“The relevant framework is not one of morality but of survival. At every level, from brute camouflage to poetic vision, the linguistic…

— Paul Ekman

Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,…

— Cornel West

“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human…

— Harry Kroto

It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the…

— Nathaniel Branden

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that…

— Steve Perry

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his…

— Leon Bourgeois

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

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

— Voltaire

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

— Catherynne M. Valente

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

— Sigmund Freud

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

— Max Allan Collins

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Leadership flourishes with innovation, intelligence, vision, honesty and doing the right things.

— Anil Sinha

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

— Albert Camus

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

— Karl Kraus

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

— Penn Jillette

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

— Anonymous

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens