Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

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

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.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Ego is vital but not noble.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Economics is not a morality play.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

First the pork chops, then morality

Fear is the mother of morality.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.