Morality Quotes

You can't legislate morality.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.