Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never sure what the right move is, but he at least contemplates it. He's a not a rash character. It's that thoughtfulness that I really identify with.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents practice being grown ups and practice for adult morality. I remember when I was 15 and people were starting to date and someone cheated on someone. They'd say, 'He cheated on her. You know what they say, once a cheater always a cheater.'

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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.