Morality Quotes

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Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality. — Bob Hawke
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of peopleâ€™s private lives.… — Barry Goldwater
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect… — Benjamin Rush
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them… — Allen Tate
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem. — Ronald Blythe
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. — Susie Bright
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but… — Albert J. Nock
When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality. — Laozi
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, â€¦ a sense of… — Frans de Waal
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics… — Ralph Raico
Iâ€™m accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows — Peter Woodcock
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics.… — William Winwood Reade
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries,… — Manis Friedman
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do… — Dennis McKinsey
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — Ayn Rand
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality… — Sarah Zettel
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. — Carl L. Becker
Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if… — Tarun J. Tejpal

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