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, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
~By Herbert Read ~
You can't legislate morality.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
~By James Madison ~
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~By Leon Blum ~
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
~By Robert Reich ~
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
~By George Whitefield ~
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
~By Judith Martin ~
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
~By Roger Penrose ~
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
~By Paul Bert ~
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 ~
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
~By Andre Weil ~
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
~By Roger Penrose ~
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 ~
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
~By David Hume ~
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
~By John Ruskin ~
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
~By Herman Kahn ~
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
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 ~
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
~By Jane Rule ~
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 ~
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
~By Marc Maron ~
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
~By Milan Kundera ~
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
~By Susie Bright ~
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
~By Michael Graves ~
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
~By Karl Kraus ~
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 ~
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
~By Dee Hock ~
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 ~
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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.
~By Jeff Koons ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
~By Roger Penrose ~
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
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 ~
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
~By Robin Day ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
~By Cal Thomas ~
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
~By Robert Evans ~
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 ~
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 ~
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
~By Mason Cooley ~
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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 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 ~
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
~By Victor Hugo ~
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
~By Ayn Rand ~
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
~By Cal Thomas ~
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 ~
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 no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
~By John Cory ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
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 ~
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 ~
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
~By Rob Morrow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
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 ~
Force always attracts men of low morality.
~By Albert Einstein ~
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
~By James Baldwin ~
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
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 ~
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
~By Freda Adler ~
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
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