Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

A rational process is a moral process.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Civilization depends on morality.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Cowards can never be moral.

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

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.

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.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

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

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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.