Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
~By Lincoln Steffens ~
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
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 think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
~By Norman Lear ~
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 ~
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
~By Kevin Williamson ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
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 ~
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
~By Simone Weil ~
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
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 ~
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 ~
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
~By Bill Condon ~
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
~By Robin Day ~
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 greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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 ~
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.
~By Karl Rahner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
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 ~
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
~By Donald Judd ~
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
~By Herbert Read ~
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
~By Susie Bright ~
And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
~By Warren Jeffs ~
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 ~
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
~By Roger Penrose ~
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Compassion is the basis of morality.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
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.
~By Byron White ~
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 ~
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 ~
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
~By Cal Thomas ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
~By Donald Judd ~
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
~By Patricia Meyer Spacks ~
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
~By Paul Bert ~
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 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 ~
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
~By Jean Stafford ~
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
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 ~
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
~By Garrett Hardin ~
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
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 ~
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 ~
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
~By Neil Kurshan ~
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
~By Rob Morrow ~
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
~By Vine Deloria, Jr. ~
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
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 ~
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
~By Noah Webster ~
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 ~
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
~By Andre Weil ~
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~By Graham Greene ~
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
~By Peter Fonda ~
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