Morality Quotes · Page 31

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

— Fanny Fern

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

— Oscar Wilde

“That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder.”

— Dániel Berzsenyi

“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”

— Doreen Valiente

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

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

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the…

— Walter Rodney

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid,…

— John Kennedy Toole

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and…

— Daniel Waterman

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit…

— Zhuangzi

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing…

— Socrates

“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

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.…

— Nicolas Chamfort

I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they…

— Chris Avellone

Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,…

— Sam Harris

The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source…

— Muhammad Asad

“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

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

— George Pell

“Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.

— William H. Pryor

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

— H. L. Mencken

“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”

— Petronius

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

— Umar

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

— Herbert Spencer

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

— Susan Sontag

“In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.”

— David L Lloyd

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

— James Anthony Froude

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

— Anonymous