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.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

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.