Morality Quotes - Page 19

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.