An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
Scott Adams
Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle.
Mahatma Ghandi
Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is 'What do you like?' Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. Chesterton
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Bertrand Russell
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods.
Irving Kristol
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Forude
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A. J. Ayer
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.
Albert Bandura
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Alex Carey
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike.
Peter F. Drucker
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and invigoration.
Gretel Ehrlich
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Imannuel Kant
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
Jay Sekulow
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Cal Thomas
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
Dr. William H. Masters
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander
You can't legislate morality.
Jesse Ventura
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Byron R. White
Too much morality, too little sense.
Four Weddings And A Funeral
It's basically a morality tale. It's all about morals and values. It just happens to be done topless.
Gina Gershon
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
James A. Froude
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
George Whitefield
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy Hattersley
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
William Bennett
His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.
Paul éluard
There is no fair or effective way to categorize one's values or morality.
Vivi Widyawati
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins
It takes away from the credibility of the argument that the U.S. is in favor of a free Internet. It's a question of morality -- [and] we should not discriminate.
Martin Selmayr
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
Judith Martin
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis De Tocqueville
ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Ambrose Bierce
Photons have neither morality nor visas.
David Farber
The main issue for me would be the policies of morality as opposed to economics.
Joel Miller
Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.
Douglas Laycock
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
Jeff Koons
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Roland Allen
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
E. M. Forster
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Remy De Gourmont
You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.
James Greenwood
In the last decade, there's been a lot more public dialogue about the efficacy and morality of the death penalty. And that has made it easier for governors, when appropriate, to decide to commute a sentence.
Mark Lubbers
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.
Karl Rahner
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
Lord Shawcross
There is no connection between morality and disaster, Are we going to think that they deserved that? That would be atrocious.
Huston Smith
We could be accused of being insensitive, but we think there's more to life than a bank account, ... Morality is an issue, and if you look at it critically, you'll see it is more than just dollar signs.
William Perkins
At the end of the day a trial like this is a morality play. It is not just what happened, and who said what to whom, but who is an honest person.
Mark Zauderer
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
Emile Durkheim
It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home.
Edward Said
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