Morality Quotes

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. H. L. Mencken
Time Better Those Immorality Morality Having Better Time Who
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Mahatma Gandhi
Truth Truth Is Morality Substance Things Basis
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player. Milton Friedman
Government Good Freedom Active Good Intentions Tries Cost Morality Pursuit Come Economy Inefficiency Motivation Referee Loss Legislate Lack Intentions Interests Should Rearrange Help Special Special Interests Player
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Aleister Crowley
Nature Natural People Drunk Manners Fighting Morality Facts Instincts Tales Suppress Make Modern Them Ignorant Keep
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. Socrates
Illusion Values Nothing Relative Thoroughly System Morality Emotional Mere True Conception Vulgar Sound Which Based
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. George Washington
Prevail Religion Experience National Religious Morality Both Maintained Exclusion Indulge Supposition Forbid Principle Without Caution Expect Us Reason Let Us
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
Happiness Happy Ourselves Worthy Morality Doctrine Make How May
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. John F. Kennedy
Man Consequences Dangers Pressures Must Morality Spite He Obstacles Does Personal Human Basis
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
Attitude People Morality Adopt Simply Towards Dislike Personally Whom
Force always attracts men of low morality. Albert Einstein
Men Morality Force Attracts Always Low
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art Somewhere Consists Drawing Morality Like Line
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke
Love Truth Alone Society Our Neighbor Ourselves Morality Cases Determine Human Social To Love Might Human Society
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. Haile Selassie
Truth Man Justice Peace Rights Courage Speak Morality Shall Freedoms Least Go Die Eternal Transgression Eternal Vigilance Require Act Vigilance International Suffer Basic Necessary Guaranteeing Preservation
When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?' Ravi Zacharias
Life You Down Every Think Thinking Destiny Morality Wrong Headed Come Know How Am Questions Person Did Die Being Where After Them Meaning Ask Asked Really Boil Origin Fundamental Fundamental Questions Right Four Brings
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. Grover Cleveland
Success Government Justice People Intelligence Depend Must Morality For The People Interest Themselves
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. H. L. Mencken
Honor Men Superior Morality Simply
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Arthur C. Clarke
Religion History Entire Morality Hijacking Greatest Tragedy May Mankind
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. Thomas Jefferson
Truth Truth Is Important Society Morality Very Branch Certainly
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. Ayn Rand
Men Morality Civilization Altruism Survive Any To Survive Reject
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. Andrew Carnegie
Strong Men Defeat Sign Weakness Strong Men Admission Morality Compromise Compromised Never Principles Said Sounds Contradictory Should
Fear is the mother of morality. Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear Mother Morality
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. Mikhail Bakunin
Good Freedom Dignity Consists Morality Individual He Freely Forced Because Does Precisely Human Wants Human Dignity Loves
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand
Rights Law Matter Morality Individual Forbidden Permitted Mob Actions Thing Numbers
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. Billy Sunday
Will Long Believe Morality Step Taken Toward Names Been Sins Public Right
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Ayn Rand
You Yourself Live Enjoy Morality Purpose Die Teach Suffer
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.' Billy Graham
God Me Change Generation Law Adultery Living Say Circumstances Relevant Morality New Clergymen New Generation So-Called Meaningful Certain Who Many They Say Alarm Right Thing
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