Morality Quotes · Page 53

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

— Karl Kraus

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

— Alexander Pope

Never concede to evil… When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

— Anonymous

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

— Mary Hunter Austin

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

— George Washington

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

— Anonymous

The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince…

— Ingrid Seward

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal…

— Walter Benjamin

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask…

— David Bezmozgis

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

— Ayn Rand

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help…

— Sheri Fink

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most…

— Antoine Rivarol

“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one…

— Philip K. Dick

“If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may…

— Rebecca Manley Pippert

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you…

— Warren Buffett

“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious…

— Jeffrey Tayler

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be…

— Henry David Thoreau

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more…

— Terry Pratchett

“...the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by…

— Richard C. Carrier

“In foreign policy, a modest acceptance of fate will often lead to discipline rather than indifference. The realization that we cannot always…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character…

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

“It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.”

— Al Batt

“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

— Rick Harrison

“I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.”

— Steven Pinker

“If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.”

— Saaif Alam

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

— Bertrand Russell

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

— Erica Jong

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

— James Anthony Froude

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

— Ayn Rand

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

“If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety.”

— Saaif Alam

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera