Morality Quotes

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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.

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

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.