Morality Quotes

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Morality is contraband in war.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.