Morality Quotes

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

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.

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.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

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

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.

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.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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.