Morality Quotes
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The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.
Esther Perel -
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.
William H. Prescott
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There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.
Tom Hayden -
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
Seth MacFarlane -
If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?
Sufjan Stevens -
Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
Elliot S. Maggin -
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
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Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.
Cathy O'Neil -
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
William Woodruff -
Morality is a personal matter.
Brad Warner -
The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of divine laws. If you're not under that protection, you can get caught up into anything.
Nirmala Srivastava -
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson -
There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
Stephen Fry