Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

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

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 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!

Morality, when formal, devours.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Morality is a personal matter.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

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.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

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.