Morality Quotes

John adams - we have no government armed with power capable of...
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness".
Arthur rimbaud - morality is the weakness of the mind....
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
Henry Steele Commage
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexande
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
Blaise Pascal
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116
Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of.
B. J. Gupta
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Alex Carey
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
A man does what he must - In spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - And that is the basis of all human morality.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitze
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Herbert Samuel
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beeche
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau