Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

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.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

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.

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.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

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

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.