Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

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

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

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

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.

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

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.