Morality Quotes - Page 18

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.