Morality Quotes

• Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  

  George Washington
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Justice

• What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

  

  Edward Mayhew
  • Animals
  • Injustice
  • Gentle

• We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Military
  • Causes
  • Morality

• Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Accompany

• We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Vietnam

• My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

  

  Anthony Venn-Brown
  • Choices
  • Morality
  • Orientation

• The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

  

  George Washington
  • Enough
  • Gratitude
  • Obligation

• By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Passions

• If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Fear
  • Selfishness
  • God Exists

• For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Moral
  • Diamond
  • Climbs

• Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Admit
  • Custom

• I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Moral
  • Virtue
  • Judgment

• Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

  

  Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Found
  • Morality
  • Socity

• All true religion must stand on true morality.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • True
  • Religion
  • Morality

• All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Consequences
  • Judges
  • Cancel

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Morality
  • Solve

• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Behavior
  • Morality
  • Change The Heart

• It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.

  

  Gene Veith
  • Believe
  • Forgiving
  • Relative

• Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Performance
  • Morality

• We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Behave

• Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Fear
  • Evil
  • Religion

• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

  

  Bernard Lazare
  • Faith
  • Christianity
  • Jew

• Why, if economic freedom has proven itself time and time again to be the engine of prosperity, do we keep moving toward Big Government? Why is a pro-freedom agenda so hard to come by and to defend? Why, no matter the rhetoric, no matter the mood of the electorate, no matter how much the weight of Big Government pulls down economic progress, do we get more regulations, more government spending, less economic freedom? The answer might surprise you. It has to do with something we don’t often talk about in explicit terms. It has to do with morality.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Time
  • Economic
  • Big Government

• Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Morality
  • Accepted

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