Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 945 authors

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct. — Penelope Fitzgerald
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your… — Ravi Zacharias
Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so… — Cassandra Clare
There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than… — Donita K. Paul
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as… — Ellen DeGeneres
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. — Edmund Burke
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P D Ouspensky
But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral. — Anne Rice
Life is two things. Life is morality â€“ life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw.… — H.G. Wells
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. — Patrick Henry
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom… — Steven Pinker
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. — Khushwant Singh
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law. — Gilles Deleuze
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families. — John Adams
We are on strike against martyrdomâ€”and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must… — Ayn Rand
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion… — Ronald Reagan
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must… — Honore de Balzac
He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality. — Jim Butcher
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the… — Rajneesh
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by… — Leo Tolstoy

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