Morality Quotes
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Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.
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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 not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
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Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
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There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
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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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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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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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It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
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Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.
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I'm a subjectivist about morality.
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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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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by 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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In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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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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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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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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I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.
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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.
