Morality Quotations | Page 2

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

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

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Food first, then morality.

First the pork chops, then morality

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

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

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

There are different rules in entertainment regarding morality and responsibility in speech,

we heard a lot . . . about moral values. And you know as well as I do that there's a big move on to get people to forget that it's not only private morality, but public morality that needs to be looked at and considered.

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

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

So judges are responsible for abiding by the morality in their own lives, but they are not responsible for imposing that morality in judicial decision-making.

Sexual morality was becoming stricter, and prostitutes were usually condemned far more savagely than the men who used their services.

Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't want to dictate morality to people.

One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Morality requires an absolute basis a Supreme Law-Giver or else it will be diluted by convenience.

Morality is the biggest misconception. People also think we're the big spenders and for big government. We're the party for the people and for helping people, and we're for government that works.

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.

Morality has disappeared, and people now do anything for money. Child abduction is a truly ugly phenomenon, an extremely serious social problem.

Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows.

Money comes and... goes! But morality? It comes and grows! Morality has to be grown in the heart by feeding it with Love; then only we can have justice, security, law and order.

I guess in all these films, ... there is a sense that morality is a luxury that we can afford in less fraught times, but in extreme situations and extreme environments, morality becomes a very grey issue.

Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle

From a morality point of view, I wouldn't even go near, ... But in terms of making an interesting show, I'm sure they'll have to struggle with it.

I don't view this as an issue of morality.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

He was the guy who by his heroic actions gave a morality and dignity to the American military effort.

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

There is no connection between morality and disaster, Are we going to think that they deserved that? That would be atrocious.

We must defend our rights and preserve our constitution, ... For the federal courts to adopt the agenda of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and to remove the knowledge of God and morality from our lives is wrong.

It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality erodes while judges tell children they cannot pray,

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

I think it's totally inappropriate for the assistant state attorney to comment on the morality or ethics of the circumstances. Her job is to review whether or not a crime has been committed - period.

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

I think there is one issue that really plays big in the Republican Party right now, and that's morality in government.

Relate it to what should happen; fuse it into the long morality play that began, really, in the Garden of Eden.

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.

Traditional arguments in favor of diversity often focus on ethics, morality and constitutionality. I wanted to look at the observable effects of diversity on performance.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

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

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

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

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.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.