Morality Quotes · Page 48

Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".

— Richard Summerbell

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

— Ayn Rand

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used…

— Peter Singer

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”

— Zaman Ali

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

— Neal Stephenson

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

— Mark Twain

“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile,…

— Yann Martel

“But as I tell my ethics students in the morality section, what we feel is one thing. What we do about what…

— Deana Farrady

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me. I am quite aware of that.…

— Oscar Wilde

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't…

— Robert Evans

“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based…

— Stefan Molyneux

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than…

— D. H. Lawrence

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness…

— Richard Whately

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live…

— George Friedman

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts…

— George Washington

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They…

— David Barton

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you…

— C. S. Lewis

Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace…

— Glenn R. Schiraldi

“Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he…

— Raheel Farooq

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

— Alan Arkin

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

— John Ruskin

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Two wrongs' create an additional problem. 'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse. 'Two rights' create a solution.”

— Emmanuel Aghado

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

— Emile Durkheim

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

— Voltaire

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

— Herbert Hoover

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.”

— Philippa Foot

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

— Wendy Kaminer