Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 913 authors

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more… — Larry Hagman
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in… — Garrett Hardin
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if… — Garrett Hardin
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. — Thomas Hardy
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense… — Sam Harris
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there… — Sam Harris
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality. — Sam Harris
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. — Sam Harris
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the… — Sydney J. Harris
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. — William Hazlitt
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. — Lafcadio Hearn
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any… — Alexander Herzen
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. — Gordon B. Hinckley
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the… — Christopher Hitchens
Ordinary morality is innate in my view. — Christopher Hitchens
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. — E. W. Howe
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. — Victor Hugo
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that… — Wilhelm von Humboldt

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