Quotes about Morality

23 quotes about Morality

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for...

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Quote by Frank Herbert about morality

A stong morality is not admirable, on the contrary, is...

A stong morality is not admirable, on the contrary, is the fear's testimony in front of life, inability to handle things by youself.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about morality

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Quote by Joe Baca about morality

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about morality

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.

Quote by Lord Acton about morality

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about morality

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, ...

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.

Quote by Joseph Addison about morality

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Quote by Jane Austen about morality

I have always maintained that society has no business...

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Quote by Peter Fonda about morality

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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about morality

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.

Quote by Larry Hagman about morality

What distinguishes libertarianism from other views of...

What distinguishes libertarianism from other views of political morality is principally its theory of enforceable obligations.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about morality

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about morality

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.

Quote by George Pataki about morality

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the...

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Quote by Roger Penrose about morality

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the...

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Quote by Roger Penrose about morality

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, ...

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Quote by James Cash Penney about morality

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to...

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

Quote by Roger Penrose about morality

Man through his essence is a dual being of Good and Evil that are a part of man’s self that he can never chase away from him, because if he tries to chase away Evil to keep only Good, Man becomes an alien to himself, transforming the Good he leans...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about morality

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.

Quote by Georges Bataille about morality

Last quotes

Literary temponaut from the rebellious worlds of man, I... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

The mist has been removed from my eyes, under the icon of... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

There was a time when everything you said to me turned... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

The photon will have remained for me - as best suits a... (Dumitru Găleşanu)

Top quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the... (William Blake)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is... (Henry Ford)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

Random quotes

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not... (John Pearson)

As soon as the child is in the car and the car has left... (Edward A. Murphy)

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. (Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Giving is true having. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Authors

Famous quotes

Folklore