Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

The market has no morality

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

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 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 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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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