Morality Quotes

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

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.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

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.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they want us to labour? Where is the next place they will take us? Why do we not focus on building our own economies and societies? We need to put all hands on deck to get our economies to function at a higher level.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

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.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

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.

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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.

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.