Morality Quotes · Page 47

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

— Albert Einstein

“The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of…

— L. Frank Baum

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

— Roland Barthes

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

— Immanuel Kant

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

— Joyce Carol Oates

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

— John Ridley

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

— Henry David Thoreau

“So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a…

— R. Alan Woods

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the…

— Greg Behrendt

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to…

— Judith Martin

To live a meaningful life one needs to pursue something that is right, just and does not hurt others. Live your dream,…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to…

— Richard Davenport-Hines

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

— Sofia

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but…

— R.J. Rushdoony

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who…

— Lyndon LaRouche

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success.…

— Killer Mike

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those…

— Jonathan Edwards

But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have…

— Kenny Smith

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. All that is necessary for the # triumph…

— Paul Tillich

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process…

— Alexander McCall Smith

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

— George W. Bush

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."

— Ivan Boesky

“There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.”

— Jon Erickson

“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.”

— Peter Singer

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity…

— Christopher Fry

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

— Armstrong Williams

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

— Christopher Hitchens

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

— Carl F. H. Henry

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

— Max Weber

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

— Ayn Rand

I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us.

— Adrian Pasdar

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

— Joan D. Chittister

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo