Morality Quotes - 7
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Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.
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More Morality Quotes
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
jane austen— 1814 Mansfield Park, ch.9.
The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.
George Bernard Shaw— 1963 In the Observer,17 Jul.
When someone says,'It isgood business', you may be sure it is bad morality.
Robin Skelton— 1991A Devious Dictionary.
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
f. h. bradley— The Limits of Individual and National Self-Sacrifice
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
shirley chisholm— P. 108. (Unbought and Unbossed (1970))
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.
goparaju ramachandra rao— Atheism: Questions and Answers
We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.
goparaju ramachandra rao— I Learn
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
jean piaget— The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
james anthony froude— James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Calvinism.
Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.
georg brandes— p. 26 (cf. Daybreak, § 11)
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
arthur c. clarke— "Credo" (1991); also in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Essays, 1934-1998 (1999), p. 360
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.
joseph conrad— in an August 1901 letter to the editor of The New York Times Saturday Book Review, quoted in Zdzis?aw Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, translated by Halina Najder, Rochester, New York, Camden House, 2007, ISBN 1-57113-347-X, p. 315.
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument ("The 'We' Fallacy"), February 1988: On Noam Chomsky
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Immanuel Kant— As quoted in Faith Or Fact (1897) by Henry Moorehouse Taber, p. 86
Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
karl marx— Section 1, paragraph 47, lines 7-9
[W]hen Karl Marx, the most consistent translator of the altruist morality into practical action and political theory, advocated a society where all would be sacrificed to all, starting with the immediate immolation of the able, the intelligent, the successful and the wealthy whatever opposition he did encounter, nobody opposed him on moral grounds. Predominantly, he was granted the status of a noble, but impractical, idealist .
karl marx— Ayn Rand (1961) For the New Intellectual, NY: Signet
All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.
margaret sanger— "Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)
african spir— p. 40. (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.
african spir— p. 60 - Hélène's Claparède-Spir underlined
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
— William Wilberforce.
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., Young and others v. The King (1789), 3 T. R. 102.
Where Krishna is the Master of combinations, where Partha is the wielder of the bow, there, I am convinced, would be glory, victory, growth and firm morality.
— Sanjaya; Chapter 18, verse 78 (the last verse in the Bhagavad Gita); Jogindranath Mukharji translation
A genuinely democratic society requires a secular ethos: one that does not equate morality with religion, stigmatize atheists, defer to religious interests and aims over others or make religious belief an informal qualification for public office. Of course, secularism in the latter sense is not mandated by the First Amendment. It's a matter of sensibility, not law.
— Ellen Willis, "Freedom from Religion", The Nation (February 19, 2001)
In Iran, the walls of homes are transparent and the halls of justice are opaque. This ‘morality’ campaign shows how fragile respect for privacy and personal dignity is in Iran today.
— Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East division of Human Rights Watch, as quoted in "Iran: End Arrests on Immorality Charges" at Human Rights News (17 May 2007)
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
— Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linus (2004-08-26). Message to linux-usb-devel mailing list. Retrieved on 2009-11-27.
To do, as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as one's self, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
john stuart mill— John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
roy hattersley— The Guardian, 30 September 1988
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. morality is attention, not system.
james richardson— #398 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
morality , in and of itself, is a damning thing. Self-righteousness is a damning thing. You’d be better off to be immoral and face the reality of your needs so that you would come to a Savior, than to live under the illusion that because you have a moral code on the outside, all is well on the inside between you and God .
— John MacArthur, in Don’t call evil good and good evil, E A Ministries, 1 August 2013
morality is thus the relation of actions to the autonomy of the will, that is, to a possible giving of universal law through its maxims.
— Immanuel Kant, quoted by Michael J. Sandel in Justice: A Reader
