Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment to put it in the Bill of Rights, then that's what we ought to do. Nobody with a conscience would leave the victim of a shark attack to bleed while we figure out whether or not they could pay for care. That tells us that at some level, health care access is a basic human right. Our system should be aligned so that our policies match our morality. Then within that system where everybody has access, we need to incentivize prevention, both for the patient and the provider.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.