Moral Quotes - Page 46

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

There aren't any moral victories.

If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.