Morality Quotes · Page 30

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you…

— Samuel Johnson

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

— Horace Bushnell

“If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.”

— Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

“Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.”

— Timothy Keller

“The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.”

— Brian Awehali

“But human flesh is weak. And the human spirit is weak as well — before curiosity, before desire, before doubt.”

— Ruslana Pidsadiuk

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll…

— Cass McCombs

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

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

— Roger Zelazny

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“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

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

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

— Shai Tubali

“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

“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

“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

“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

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”

— Alexander Pope

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

— Peter McWilliams

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”

— Charlotte Bronte

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

— Albert Camus

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

— Moliere

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

— Herbert Spencer

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

— Paul Tillich

“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.”

— Geraldine Brooks

Life is too short to cry for anything so smile and do what makes you happy with morals.

— Abdel Rahman Sabry

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

— Mark Crispin Miller

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

— Anonymous

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes…

— W. Somerset Maugham