Moral Quotes - Page 34

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.