Morality Quotes · Page 57

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

— Georg Brandes

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

— George Washington

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.”

— Neal Shusterman

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

— Herman Melville

Life is not always about understanding, but also about doing good things.

— Anonymous

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

— Mahavira

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are…

— Jacques Barzun

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have…

— Walter Cronkite

“If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all…

— Stephen McAndrew

“While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no…

— Roger Zelazny

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that…

— Asghar Farhadi

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own…

— Sebastian Faulks

“The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things…

— Mango Wodzak

I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -…

— Naum Gabo

I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the…

— Barack Obama

It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can…

— David Hume

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many…

— Joan D. Chittister

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords…

— Henry David Thoreau

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in…

— John Carroll

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts…

— Virginia Woolf

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

— Marya Mannes

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

— Anonymous

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

— Confucius

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

— Leo Tolstoy

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

— Blaise Pascal

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

— E. M. Forster

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within…

— Jaggi Vasudev

“In ambiguous situations, it's a good bet that the crowd will generally stick together – and be wrong.”

— Anonymous

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he…

— Henry David Thoreau

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

— Joseph Scheidler

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

— Frances Wright

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Never STAY in a relationship, friendship or situation that goes against your morals.

— Sonya Parker

Until power is made subservient to morality, humanity will continue to suffer.

— Tasneem Hameed