Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 945 authors

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a… — Paul Bloom
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught… — Paul Bloom
Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads. — J. G. Ballard
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world… — Ellen Willis
The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are… — Michael Ignatieff
Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what… — Oscar Isaac
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human… — Samuel Freeman Miller
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. — John Shimkus
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too,… — Donella Meadows
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the… — Norma Shearer
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. — Lemuel K. Washburn
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the… — John F. Kennedy
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of… — Robert Kocharian
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul,… — Frank Harris
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives… — Auberon Herbert
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news… — Mark Kennedy
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. — Armstrong Williams

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