233 Morality Quotes for You to Enjoy

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. Archibald Alexander

Men Else Consists Morality More Primarily Motives Affections Accountable Than Anything Anything Else

The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact. Ari Melber

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model. Arundhati Roy

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People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse. Ben Bernanke

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There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. Byron White

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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country? Cal Thomas

Power Country Politicians Morality Limited How Impose Themselves

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.' Chris Avellone

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People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality. Chris Noth

Commitment People Word Everyone About Morality Taken Weird New Height

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. Christian Lous Lange

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Ordinary morality is innate in my view. Christopher Hitchens

Morality Ordinary View Innate

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted. Colum McCann

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The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality. Dave Brat

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I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. David E. Kelley

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Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. David Harsanyi

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I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today. David L. Wolper

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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. David Novak

Moral Morality Implications Always Theology

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. Derek Jarman

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Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom? Des Browne

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We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical. Dominique Pire

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. Donald Judd

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The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key

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Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages. Ellen Key

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When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained. Ellen Key

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