Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
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 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 ~
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
~By Susie Bright ~
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
~By Jean Stafford ~
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
~By Chester Irving Barnard ~
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
~By Robin Day ~
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Bennett ~
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
~By Barry McGuire ~
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
~By Steven Seagal ~
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 ~
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
~By Peter Fonda ~
You can't legislate morality.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
~By Auberon Herbert ~
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
~By Billy Sunday ~
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
~By John Ruskin ~
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
~By Lincoln Steffens ~
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
~By E. M. Forster ~
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
~By Vine Deloria, Jr. ~
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 ~
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
Democracy without morality is impossible.
~By Jack Kemp ~
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 ~
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
~By Milan Kundera ~
Force always attracts men of low morality.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
~By Michael Graves ~
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
~By Pat Robertson ~
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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 ~
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
~By Derek Jarman ~
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 ~
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
~By Marc Maron ~
Compassion is the basis of morality.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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 ~
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
~By Herbert Read ~
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
~By Malcolm Bradbury ~
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
~By Karl Kraus ~
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 ~
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
~By Bill Condon ~
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
~By George Washington ~
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
~By Roger Penrose ~
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~By Leon Blum ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
~By Neil Kurshan ~
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 ~
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
~By Rob Morrow ~
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
~By Lord Acton ~
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
~By Cal Thomas ~
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
~By George Combe ~
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
~By Jeff Koons ~
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
~By Jane Austen ~
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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 ~
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
~By Bob Woodward ~
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
~By Robert Reich ~
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