Moral Quotes - Page 30

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.