Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 945 authors

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity… — James A. Baldwin
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It… — Stewart Udall
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. — George W. Romney
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help… — Jonathan Haidt
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. — Jonathan Haidt
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being… — Sam Harris
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some… — Sam Harris
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion. — Brian Dennehy
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern… — Max Weber
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down? — John Shelby Spong
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality. — Karen Horney
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear… — Friedrich St. Florian
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense. — Baron d'Holbach
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. — David Harsanyi
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power… — Martin Jacques
There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but… — Dinesh D'Souza
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are… — Noam Chomsky
Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. — David Novak
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from… — Sherwin B. Nuland
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and… — Dave Brat

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