Morality Quotes · Page 38

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

— Paul Bloom

“Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?”

— M. COCHET M

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

— William Safire

“Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

— Julia Ward Howe

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

— Marvin Minsky

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is…

— Anonymous

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the…

— James Madison

Transparency makes you to act with fairness, without favoring anyone. Transparency inculcates quality of integrity which makes you to act with justice.

— Anil Sinha

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

If you want to have a better and happy life, know your own ethics, build a sense of right and wrong for…

— Senora Roy

The success of being a mother is seen in her child's morals. If she molded the good behavior of her children then…

— Innah Delos Angeles

If you ever have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you,that's signal to change the people around…

— JOHNREYES

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part…

— Bertrand Russell

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at…

— Margaret E. Knight

“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it…

— Albert Einstein

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,…

— James A. Garfield

“The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity,…

— Immanuel Kant

“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every…

— Anonymous

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

“The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

— Dante Alighieri

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

— Corliss Lamont

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

— Thomas Jefferson

“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.”

— William S. Burroughs

“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as…

— Criss Jami

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

— Kate Mosse

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

— Patrick Henry

Morality is the spark that ignites the fuel, Will is the explosion of TNT and Pride is the soldiers next to you

— Mattias Konradsson

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

— Samuel Richardson

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

— Donald Judd

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

— Corliss Lamont

“Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men”

— Tristan Tzara