Quotes About Moral Codes

#1. The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

Rosie O'Donnell

#2. And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Clarence Thomas

#3. Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

Lawren Harris

#4. Moral codes are like the ocean. Some people live by them, while others, such as myself, would rather live by a lake.

Jarod Kintz

#5. I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

Donna Murphy

#6. Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.

Jacques Barzun

#7. Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Denis De Rougemont

#8. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.

Veronica Roth

#9. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

Nawal El Saadawi

#11. Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Mario Bunge

#12. Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Will Durant

#13. My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground of conflicting moral codes and dogma. I was, therefore, back to normal.

David Wong

#14. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#15. I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

Richard Brancatisano

#16. Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft
certainly not
but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. You - you insufferable - " "I give you credit for cleverness - " " - scurrilous, despicable - " " - but it is time you returned to where you belong." " - pompous, controlling ass." Unwisely, he smirked. "Now, now, my dear. Language.

Elisa Braden

#18. Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#19. TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That

Matt Taibbi

#20. You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

Sheri Fink

#22. Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

John B. S. Haldane

#23. It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#24. Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

Richard Rohr

#25. Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

Ambrose Bierce