Quotes and Sayings About Morality
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Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
-- Samuel West -
whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.
-- Sarah Moore Grimke -
All effective actions require the passport of morality.
-- Saul -
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.
-- Semir Zeki -
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
-- Sigmund Freud -
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
-- Sigrid Undset -
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .
-- Silvio Berlusconi -
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
-- Sinclair Lewis -
Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.
-- Stephen Young -
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.
-- Steve Coogan -
Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.
-- Steve Coogan -
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.
-- Ted Koppel -
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
-- Thomas Hardy -
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
-- Timothy Radcliffe -
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
-- U Thant -
Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
-- Umar -
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
-- V. Raymond Edman -
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.
-- Victor Cousin -
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
-- Victor Hugo -
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
-- Victoria Ocampo -
Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
-- Vidal Sassoon
