Moral Quotes - Page 35

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

We are not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.