Morality Quotes - Page 20

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

Health is the requisite after morality

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

The world has far too much morality.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.