Morality Quotes

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Bad company ruins good morals.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.