Morality Quotes

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Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain… — Herbert Read
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding… — Edward Snowden
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own… — George F. R. Ellis
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before,… — David Starkey
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. — Walter Cronkite
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to… — Theodore Roosevelt
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred… — Mike Hernacki
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders -… — Paul Craig Roberts
There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found… — Tom Hayden
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation… — Janna Levin
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the great would… — Andrew Ryan
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the… — Muhammad Asad
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth,… — Criss Jami
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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