In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
~By Robert Bork ~
This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.
~By Julianne Moore ~
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
~By Emma Goldman ~
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
~By Huston Smith ~
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
~By Joseph Addison ~
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
~By Robert Reich ~
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
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.
~By Georges Bataille ~
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
~By Karl Kraus ~
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
~By Robin Day ~
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
~By Winston Churchill ~
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
~By Jane Addams ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
~By Phil Ochs ~
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Compassion is the basis of morality.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
~By William Masters ~
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
~By Peter Fonda ~
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
~By Judith Martin ~
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
~By Allen Tate ~
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
~By Melina Mercouri ~
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
~By John Cory ~
Morality is contraband in war.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
~By Richard Steele ~
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.
~By Amy Grant ~
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Force always attracts men of low morality.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
~By Larry Hagman ~
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
~By Donald Judd ~
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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.
~By Judith Martin ~
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
~By Vine Deloria, Jr. ~
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
~By Toni Morrison ~
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
~By Malcolm Bradbury ~
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
~By Maria Edgeworth ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
~By Robert Kocharian ~
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.
~By Herbert Marcuse ~
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
~By David McCallum ~
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
~By Socrates ~
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Democracy without morality is impossible.
~By Jack Kemp ~
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
~By Susie Bright ~
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
~By Rob Morrow ~
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
~By Jane Rule ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
~By John Shimkus ~
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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.
~By Roland Allen ~
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
~By James Baldwin ~
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~By Graham Greene ~
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
~By Norman Lear ~
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
~By Frank Harris ~
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
~By George Pataki ~
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
~By Bill Condon ~
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
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