Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Morality, when formal, devours.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Morality is a personal matter.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.