Morality Quotes - Page 15

Never presume yours is a better morality.

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

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

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

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 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.

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.

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

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

A rational process is a moral process.