Morality Quotes - Page 14

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

I say, break the law.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Money always talks louder than morality.