Moral Quotes - Page 25

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.