Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

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

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.

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

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

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

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

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 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.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.