Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

They judge lest they be judged.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.