Top 100 Morality Is Quotes
#1. Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
Elbert Hubbard
#2. Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#3. I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
Norman Lear
#4. When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.
Charles W. Colson
#5. Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.
Marty Rubin
#6. Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Timothy Radcliffe
#7. Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.
Paul Bloom
#8. The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.
Joel Stein
#10. Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
Jane Rule
#11. Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Andre Weil
#12. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
George Washington
#13. Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H.L. Mencken
#14. Morality is religion's license to kill.
Marty Rubin
#16. New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.
Billy Graham
#17. Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.
Ayn Rand
#18. We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.
Ian Svenonius
#19. Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.
Shai Tubali
#20. The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
Annie Besant
#21. Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
#22. Remember, morality is God's standard, not humankind's standard. So it is important that we understand the process that God used to bring us his wisdom, truth and historical perspective.
Reid A. Ashbaucher
#23. The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.
Sergey Nechayev
#24. Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
David Novak
#25. Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
Richard John Neuhaus
#26. The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another's customs and opinions; respect for one another's rights and feelings; awareness of one another's needs.
A.J. Ayer
#27. Morality is totally God's standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).
Reid A. Ashbaucher
#28. Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. I'm accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows
Peter Woodcock
#31. And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.
Lawrence Durrell
#32. A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
Erica Jong
#34. Whether morality is moral is an open question.
R.N. Prasher
#35. Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
Freeman Dyson
#36. Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.
John Marsden
#41. Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
Henry Ward Beecher
#42. If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
William Jennings Bryan
#43. Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.
Edward Bond
#44. It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.
Pope Benedict XVI
#47. The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
Samuel Butler
#49. The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Sam Harris
#50. Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous - dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.
James Baldwin
#51. Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#52. Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
Edward O. Wilson
#53. Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#54. The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
Karl Kraus
#55. Sincerity' and 'morality' is the basement of this world.
Dada Bhagwan
#56. Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.
Jury Nel
#57. If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.
Leo Tolstoy
#58. Morality is simply a device for leading people around by the nose.
Marty Rubin
#59. There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.
Kate Mosse
#60. Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd Olympics of semantic excuses. Ludicrous.
Hazel Woods
#61. Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.
M.F. Moonzajer
#62. In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from losing ourselves to our situations.
Trenton Quinn
#64. Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
Josh Billings
#65. morality is the change that falls from your pockets when you climb up the ladder.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#66. Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp
#67. Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.
Robert M. Pirsig
#68. 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.
Derek Jarman
#69. My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
John Shelby Spong
#70. Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.
Julian Baggini
#71. Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.
Andrew Klavan
#72. Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.
Rush Limbaugh
#73. But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
#74. His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
Oscar Wilde
#76. 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.
Otto Weininger
#77. Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
George Bernard Shaw
#78. Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.
Voltaire
#79. Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.
J. Budziszewski
#80. Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
Thomas Sowell
#81. If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.
Gitta Sereny
#82. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
#83. Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue
Friedrich Schiller
#86. Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.
Peter Milligan
#87. Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.
Kavita Kane
#89. Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
Emile Durkheim
#90. Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
Robin Day
#91. Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
#92. Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#93. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#94. Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
#95. The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
Aristotle.
#96. Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
Adam Weishaupt
#97. But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality ... Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
R.J. Rushdoony
#98. The existence of strict moral principles has invariably
signified that the biological, and specifically the sexual
needs of man were not being satisfied. Every moral regulation is in itself sex-negating, and all compulsory morality is life-negating.
Wilhelm Reich
#99. Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.
Annie Besant
#100. It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice.
Larry R. Lawrence
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