Morality Quotes · Page 44

Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own.

— Anonymous

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the…

— Aristotle

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

“Religion and morality do not go hand in hand. In fact, they are at the opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum.”

— Al Stefanelli

Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals.

— Naseeruddin Shah

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.”

— Plato

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

— Robert Breault

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…

— Eric Alterman

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control,…

— Bill Maher

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a…

— Francis Schaeffer

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an…

— Robert Edmond Jones

“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That…

— Dada Bhagwan

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to…

— Samuel West

A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not…

— Jimmy Carter

The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of…

— Bertrand Russell

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game…

— George Saunders

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and…

— Muhammad Asad

“Before I can say I am , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of…

— Wallace Stegner

“When it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass. Why? When…

— Steven D. Levitt

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard…

— William O. Douglas

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

— Sam Harris

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

— Julien Benda

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.”

— Michel Templet

“...all a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”

— Cornell Woolrich

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

— Sheila Hancock

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

— C. S. Lewis

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon

“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.”

— Abu arri

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

— Robert Bolt

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

— Tim McIlrath

Sometimes... The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.

— Anonymous

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

— George Bernard Shaw