Morality Quotes - Page 8

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

We moralize among ruins.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.