Morality Quotes · Page 50

“Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.”

— John Grisham

“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.”

— Frank Tallis

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

— Shefali Zariwala

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

— Mark Twain

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

— Thomas Aquinas

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

— Peter Milligan

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone…

— Dalai Lama

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,…

— Ayn Rand

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,…

— Andrew Carnegie

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much…

— Jaggi Vasudev

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.…

— Steve Allen

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But…

— George A. Romero

And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move…

— Lily Tomlin

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause…

— Albert Einstein

“What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.…

— Emma Goldman

“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When…

— Etel Adnan

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had…

— Ted Chiang

We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature…

— David Hume

“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one…

— Stephen Fry

I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we…

— Stana Katic

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

— Tullian Tchividjian

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

— Pope Pius XII

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

— Penn Jillette

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

— Havelock Ellis

“Your morality isn't the only morality in the world. Just because it's yours doesn't mean it's right.”

— Kendare Blake

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

— Oliver Goldsmith

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

— Anton Chekhov

“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.”

— Multatuli

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

— Anonymous

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

— Sinclair Lewis

“Don't always think about being a subordinate, otherwise you would lose your self esteem and not succeed in society.”

— Saaif Alam

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

— Madame de Stael

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

— Nina Bawden

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

— Plautus

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

— Harry Browne