Morality Quotes · Page 51

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

— Herbert Spencer

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

— Jaggi Vasudev

For us, to be ignored by God is a harsher punishment than to be a victim of His anger.

— Anonymous

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

— Chester Barnard

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

— Maxine Greene

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Pride would never defeat the purpose for a person's aspirations.

— Saaif Alam

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and…

— George McGovern

“I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is…

— Ayn Rand

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

— Anonymous

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

“Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those…

— T.M. Williams

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,--"But…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The rule: when energy, 'negative' as it may be, moves without resistance, it easily sublimates and becomes raw energy of power and…

— Shai Tubali

“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's…

— Robert B. Reich

It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already…

— David A. Bednar

“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become…

— Suzy Kassem

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm…

— Linus Pauling

“Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be…

— Philip Pullman

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

— Richard Steele

“Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men”

— Tristan Tzara

“When you look down the length of your chain and see it is made mostly of weak links it is time to…

— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“Sincerity’ and ‘morality’, if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

— Donald Judd

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

— Corliss Lamont

Morality is the spark that ignites the fuel, Will is the explosion of TNT and Pride is the soldiers next to you

— Mattias Konradsson

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

— Samuel Richardson

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

— Patrick Henry

“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as…

— Criss Jami

“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.”

— William S. Burroughs

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

— Kate Mosse

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

— Dante Alighieri

“The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.”

— Stefan Molyneux