Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

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 be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

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.

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

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

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

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

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.

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.

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!