Morality Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 not only taught; it is caught.

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.

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.