Morality Quotes

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and… — Blaise Pascal
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always… — Blaise Pascal
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each… — Steven Pinker
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress. — Steven Pinker
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. — Martha Plimpton
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. — Dennis Prager
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. — Dennis Prager
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it… — Karl Rahner
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. — Ayn Rand
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. — Ayn Rand
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an… — Ayn Rand
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the… — Arthur Rimbaud
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system… — Pat Robertson
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the… — Salman Rushdie

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