Morality Quotes

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

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

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Morality is contraband in war.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.