Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Civilization depends on morality.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Cowards can never be moral.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Economics is not a morality play.

Ego is vital but not noble.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

First the pork chops, then morality

Fear is the mother of morality.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.