Best morality & behavior Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.”

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Book:Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Source: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.”

“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.”

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Author:Antoine Rivarol

“I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.”

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Author:Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

“The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.”

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Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.”

“There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable form of government or attempt to shape it. Islam has never offered nor established a theocracy in its name. Instead, Islam establishes fundamental principles that orient a government's general character.”

“I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They do things that may hurt other people, or exploit other people, but they may do them for the right reasons, or out of desperation." I don't judge that sort of "bad" behavior. I'm only interested in a world where people break outside of the norm, and I believe people do whatever they have to do to relieve themselves of pain. I just want to watch and see how that plays out.”

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Author:Liz W. Garcia

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.”

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Author:Gary Bauer

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.”

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Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

“The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.”

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Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.”

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Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“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.”

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Author:Ted Koppel

“We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.”

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Author:Dennis Quaid

“In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality”

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Author:Randy Wayne

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