Morality Quotes

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I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to… — Martin Amis
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,… — Clarence Darrow
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night? — Ravi Zacharias
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not… — Samuel
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in… — Swami Vivekananda
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is… — C.S. Lewis
There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. — Stephen Fry
If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality. — Penn Jillette
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. — David McCullough
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really — Manu Joseph
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For… — Thomas Jefferson
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have… — Richard Dawkins
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward… — Richard Dawkins
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — Christopher Hitchens
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to… — Gregory S. Paul
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong. — Suzy Kassem
Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass. — Suzy Kassem
All effective actions require the passport of morality. — Saul
Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.… — Laozi

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