Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

Civilization depends on morality.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Cowards can never be moral.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Ego is vital but not noble.

Economics is not a morality play.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Fear is the mother of morality.