Morality Quotes · Page 40

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

— Anonymous

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

— Pope Pius XII

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

— Thomas Aquinas

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

— Peter Milligan

“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.”

— Frank Tallis

“Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.”

— John Grisham

He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other…

— Proverb

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to…

— Des Browne

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a…

— Bob Woodward

When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I…

— Jonathan Haidt

If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not…

— David Hume

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said…

— Rosie O'Donnell

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's…

— Allan Bloom

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

“A beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we…

— Suzy Kassem

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them…

— Donald Miller

“Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of…

— Jarod Kintz

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…

— Fisher Ames

“Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

— William Shakespeare

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

— Shefali Zariwala

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

— Mark Twain

The only morality in a cruel world is 'Chance'. Unbiased, unprejudiced and fair...

— Anonymous

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

— Emma Goldman

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

— Peter Singer

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

— Corliss Lamont

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for…

— William James

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

— Benjamin Rush

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

— Mark Hopkins

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

— Havelock Ellis

When you are hooked between doing what you want or doing what others want you to do, just try and do the…

— Terry Mark

“a Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,”

— Diana Gabaldon