Morality Quotes

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

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

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.