Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

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 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.

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.