Morality Quotes - Page 5

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.