Morality Quotes

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.