Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 952 authors

Civilization depends on morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The market has no morality — Michael Heseltine
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. — Leon Blum
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. — D. H. Lawrence
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight… — Joe Baca
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… — Antonio Damasio
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. — William H. Masters
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that… — Patrick Henry
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. — Albert Schweitzer
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once… — David Brooks
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.… — Mahatma Gandhi
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. — Immanuel Kant
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers… — Joan D. Chittister
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will… — Adolf Hitler
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap… — Thomas Jefferson
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam

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