Morality Quotes - Page 4

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Cowards can never be moral.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.