Morality Quotes · Page 47

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”

— Martin Cohen

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

— Garrett Hardin

“We never raised the morality of the action, because our politics took care of that.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

— Madame de Stael

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

— Anonymous

For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.

— Sara Pascoe

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and…

— Anonymous

The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that…

— Otto Weininger

“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong.…

— Peter P. Sellers

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see…

— Neil Young

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture…

— Charles Derber

The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity…

— Sylvester Stallone

The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it…

— Adolf Hitler

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems…

— Bertrand Russell

“She might have seen what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world’s concern at her situation -…

— Thomas Hardy

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the…

— Boyd Rice

“Look into my soul, I know - everything you need is in there. It has to be. Because I've never sold my…

— Arkady Strugatsky

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

— Julian Baggini

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

— Bertrand Russell

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

— Timothy Keller

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

— Linus Pauling

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not…

— Julian Baggini

“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.”

— Adam Gidwitz

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

— Lela Loren

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

— Izaak Walton

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

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

— Patrick Henry

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

— Theodore Dreiser

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

— James Richardson

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

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders