Morality Quotes

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Bad company ruins good morals.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Fear is the mother of morality.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.