Morality Quotes · Page 45

There is some kind of weird idea people have, that morals are objective truths

— Anonymous

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“You can never be in too far to turn back and do the right thing.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

— Mona Eltahawy

“And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

— Agnes Moorehead

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

— Jeremy Bentham

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

— Sigmund Freud

“Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure…

— Lex Allen

“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.”

— Bertrand Russell

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,…

— David Hume

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something…

— Mark Twain

“The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of…

— Sam Harris

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel…

— John Quincy Adams

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

— Chogyam Trungpa

There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the…

— Edward Kennedy

It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient…

— Thomas Huxley

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he…

— Ayn Rand

Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…

— Steven Pinker

“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or…

— Eric Bentley

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the…

— Václav Havel

“I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His…

— Dorothy Day

When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks…

— Angelina Grimke

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

— Paul Tillich

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

— Greg Howard

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”

— Saint Augustine

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

— Milan Kundera

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever…

— E. W. Howe

“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.”

— Henry Hon

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that…

— Albert Camus

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

— Chicken John

“The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.”

— John Marsden

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

— Jim Butcher

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

— Melvyn Bragg

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

— John Adams

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

We have higher income, but less morals. We have much more food, but less nutrition.

— Anonymous