Morality Quotes - Page 28

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

History is not written in the interests of morality.