Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

We moralize among ruins.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Women are the guardians of morality.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your own expense.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep, 'virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it. ‘Value’ presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? 'Value’ presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.