Morality Quotes - Page 17

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

They judge lest they be judged.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.