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Morality Quotes (1133 Quotes)
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verificationso, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.
And is there any moral shut; Within the bosom of the rose.
I want you to observe, that those who cry the loudest about their disillusionment, about the failure of virtue, the futility of reason, the impotence of logic are those who have achieved the full, exact, logical result of the ideas they preached, so mercilessly logical that they dare not identify it. In a world that proclaims the non-existence of the mind, the moral righteousness of rule by brute force, the penalizing of the competent in favour of the incompetent, the sacrifice of the best to the worst in such a world, the best have to turn against society and have to become it's deadliest enemies.
He's your dream candidate for president of the United States, ... He's a moral man, an intellectual. He thinks through issues, he struggles. He shows the complexity of decision-making in the White House.
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere. It was an act of barbarism born of a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life and seeks constantly to expand and dominate other nations.
Morality is not respectability.
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
To take that step and invest in the future of the memorial at the time they did it it was an extremely generous act and one of importance because it showed material support against a real backdrop of moral support.
We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
If politicians are going to go after this demographic, it's not just about the issues but about fairness and morality. And it's not the same thing as talking about religion specifically. What I hope politicians will talk about is whether their policies are fundamentally just or unjust.
Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.
As individuals find crime to be a dead-end street, so communities and nations are subject to the same psychology. The moral side of public opinion is traditionally lazy, but there is an indefinable point at which it can be and is aroused.
One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.
Morality is the biggest misconception. People also think we're the big spenders and for big government. We're the party for the people and for helping people, and we're for government that works.
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
We didn't come here to get any moral victories. I'm disappointed with his loss.
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Morality is primarily a means of preserving the community and saving it from destruction. Next it is a means of maintaining the community on a certain plane and in a certain degree of benevolence.
I told them we played with them and that's great. But at the end of the day, we didn't win the game. And I told them the moral victory stuff, that's for teams who think they are losers.
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.
Anybody who writes science fiction is doing a morality play. When dealing with androids Aliens , they often involve fulfilling the machines as if they were gods. But what we really find out is that they're really talking about love for each other. Even though its all hidden and becomes - well - mechanical
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God morality is religion with its face toward the world.
If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained The doctrine of human equality is founded entire
One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do not believe in a standard of moral values. Many in the world today operate on the basis of practical expediency. You have undoubtedly observed this yourselves. It has become a philosophy of life for many. This is true among nations as well as among individuals.
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.
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.
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
I think it is a powerful statement. It raises fundamental issues of morality, trust.
I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.
Morality has disappeared, and people now do anything for money. Child abduction is a truly ugly phenomenon, an extremely serious social problem.
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
It is not possible for me to explain just how wonderful it is to see this house that George Exxon Bush and the moral majority built on the sand come toppling down.
To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
We don't really base it around good and evil or the moral impact of the story, ... We just don't include the bad things in the story. Each one of the story lines is based on the edict, 'Would I want to read this to my three-year-old' In this world of violence, let's makes this different by leaving all that out. We just let Happy and Max do fun things.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic he can be wise without waiting to be old he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.