Morality Quotations | Page 5

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

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?

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Morality binds and blinds.

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.

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

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

They judge lest they be judged.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Economics is not a morality play.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

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.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

The world has far too much morality.

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

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

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

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

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

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

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

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

What can laws do without morals?

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

A rational process is a moral process.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

We moralize among ruins.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

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.