Morality Quotations | Page 3

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and invigoration.

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem. It's governments and politics that make wars and do stupid things, and they should be attended to. There's no security in this life.

We could be accused of being insensitive, but we think there's more to life than a bank account, ... Morality is an issue, and if you look at it critically, you'll see it is more than just dollar signs.

At the end of the day a trial like this is a morality play. It is not just what happened, and who said what to whom, but who is an honest person.

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morality and spirituality as well.

Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

There's something nice about being able to leave your sense of morality at the door when you come to work in the morning and just be cruel to people all day. It's quite fun. In a lot of my scenes I'm on my own and I would turn up for work and there'd be me and a crew and Ron Howard and it felt like a small, intimate, personal, independent movie. But I hear that's not what it's going to be.

There's going to be plenty of market demand for all the corn and soybean meal that efficient producers in North and South America can produce. I predict that by 2050 there will be real questions raised about the morality of burning food for fuel.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Your morality is impeccable and that is why I am inspired by you.

You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.

As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit.

As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit.

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

I took it (human growth hormone) for a brief period and I didn't receive any great benefits from it. I compromised my morality to play another two years in the NFL.

It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home.

It's basically a morality tale. It's all about morals and values. It just happens to be done topless.

The bishops getting involved reminds people of the whole picture. The church goes beyond the illegality and economic concerns to bring in morality concerns.

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

It's disgusting that Ken Blackwell preaches morality in his campaign for governor but gains wealth privately from vice.

I've heard some debates about the morality of this. To me, it seems like a good idea to put together people from different countries with the same objective. If it could be done outside the sports field, it would be considered fantastic.

No matter how much they scammed, how much they lied or how much they manipulated, the kids always did the right thing. If nobody does anything wrong, you can't have a morality tale.

It violates every code of morality and it is against the law. People who engage in this kind of criminal conduct should be severely punished.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

I have not seen one article or heard one announcement that talks about the eco-morality of the whole thing.

In the beginning any man will say that he does Good, because this is the only way in which we can have a morality or a normality that would lead us to the path we seek so much, that leading to perfection, because even if man is really sinful he can be made to adhere to perfection and his self determination as a totally changed being and opposed to his self.

In my view, if the father is in the United States and prepared to take custody, and the relatives decline to give him custody, there is no basis whatsoever in law, morality or general convention for them to deny the father access to his son,

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

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

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

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

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

Morality, too, is a question of time.

No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

And here I always thought morality was useless

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

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

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

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

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Morality is a human creation. The Universe does not judge.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary heroes and morality plays and stuff. And 'Star Trek' is just pure fun. Pure science fun. And I've always appreciated both.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

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

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

You can't legislate morality.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Religion gets in the way of morality.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

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

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.