Morality Quotes
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Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
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Morality, when formal, devours.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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All I know of morality I learned from football.
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In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.
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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality.
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Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.
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We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.
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There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
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Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.
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The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
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I'm a subjectivist about morality.
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Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
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The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told.
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Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
