Morality Quotes · Page 34

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

— Jaggi Vasudev

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

— Immanuel Kant

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

— Patrick Henry

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

— Ayn Rand

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

— Roger Penrose

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”

— Glenn Beck

“Proctor is a moralist who says, “I’ve always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for…

— Anonymous

“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably…

— Spencer Reid

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right…

— Jonathan Haidt

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly…

— George Washington

The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment,…

— Fatema Mernissi

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that…

— Steven Pinker

“Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's…

— Paul Chehade

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue…

— Robert Kocharian

“[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever…

— De Robigne Mortimer Bennett

“Our dream of heaven cannot be realized on earth. Once we begin to rely upon our reason, and to use our powers…

— Karl Popper

“To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is…

— Miroslav Volf

There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values…

— Tom Hayden

We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse.…

— Sam Harris

“We have seen the kind of morality which is even now shaping itself in the ideas of the masses and of the…

— Peter Kropotkin

“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

Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have…

— Ezra Taft Benson

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

— Phil Robertson

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

— Ayn Rand

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and…

— Albert Schweitzer

“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

— Anonymous

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

— George Bernard Shaw

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

— V. Raymond Edman

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

— Oscar Wilde

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.”

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.”

— Matthew Jarpe

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

— Jonah Goldberg

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

“It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important”

— Margherita Hack