Morality Quotes · Page 26

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

— Henry David Thoreau

[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

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

— John Ridley

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the…

— Simone Weil

To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing…

— Tariq Ramadan

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a…

— Anonymous

“Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and…

— L.M. Fields

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and…

— Vaclav Havel

“Astralis might argue otherwise.” “Without me, morality is strictly defined in terms of what is beneficial for the group and for the…

— Jasper T. Scott

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality…

— Anonymous

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But…

— Martin Jacques

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the…

— Madame de Stael

And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and…

— John Grisham

“If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that…

— Billy Graham

To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at…

— Frans de Waal

“I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of…

— Sally Mann

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Leadership flourishes with innovation, intelligence, vision, honesty and doing the right things.

— Anil Sinha

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

— Max Allan Collins

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

— Sigmund Freud

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

— Albert Camus

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

— Ken Ham

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

— Elizabeth I

“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

— Brad Warner

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

— Clare Boothe Luce

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

— Oscar Wilde

“Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When elders feel rejuvenated, they would be able to increase their self esteem in order to perform their tasks in life.

— Saaif Alam

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

— Lee R. Raymond