Morality Quotes - Page 22

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never sure what the right move is, but he at least contemplates it. He's a not a rash character. It's that thoughtfulness that I really identify with.

Women are the guardians of morality.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.