Morality Quotes · Page 48

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

— Anonymous

My moral in life is simple. You treat me good and I'll definitely treat you better.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

— Lilian Jackson Braun

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of…

— Matt Dillahunty

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

— Edwin Markham

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

— Frederic Bastiat

“Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.”

— Kai Nielsen

As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same…

— Quentin L. Cook

Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use…

— Bertrand Russell

The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

— Luc de Clapiers

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

— Frans de Waal

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

— Thomas Jefferson

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic…

— Epictetus

As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect,…

— Pope Leo XIII

We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and…

— Daniel Webster

“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and…

— Immanuel Kant

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is it to make a moral judgement, or to argue about an ethical issue, or to live according to ethical standards?…

— Peter Singer

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped…

— Richard Paul Evans

“On one hand, Kant thought science led to the conclusion that humans are elements in a vast machine operating by the laws…

— Nancy Pearcey

To make our moral purpose efficient and useful, our minds must be as wide-awake and penetrating as possible.

— Senora Roy

The fundamental answer to morality is that no one is right. If everyone was good then no one would be evil.

— Jeremy Limn

“Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.”

— Oscar Wilde

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

— Stephen Young

“Our morality changes everything that holds truth - while the hate you paint with just recolours the lines of history.”

— Laura Chouette

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

— John Shimkus

Jesus Christ has given us a mind and the ability to choose between right and wrong.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

— Timothy Keller

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does…

— John Shelby Spong

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

— William Hazlitt

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

— Khaled Hosseini

“Morality is not the purpose of life; life is the purpose of morality.”

— Warren Fahy

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

— David McCullough

“Politics is merely war by other means. -an old Andorian saying”

— David Mack

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

— Harriet Martineau