Quotessence
Home / Topics / Morality Quotes

Morality Quotes

Browse 3758 quotes about Morality.

Related topics

MoralMenIfsEthicsPeopleReligionWorldHumansLawThinkingMayShouldVirtueDoeValuesPrinciplesMeanWayGivingBelieveSelfReasonKnowsEvilGovernmentChristianWellsIndividualReligiousActionNeedsFirstsImmoralArtHumanityForceSocialNationsFormMatterStatesLibertyStandardsMindWantHas BeensTwoKindRealAtheismImmoralityInterestCharacterChildrenCodeSpiritualBasesPoliticalFactsIdeasIntegrityMadeTryingDutyLiteraturePersonsCultureBeliefFeelsLyingPhilosophyCertainHelpingWholeCommonEthicalFoundationHuman BeingsOrderAgeDifferentFoundHighestImportantModernSeemsSufferingUseWarBehaviorChristianityConscienceCountryJusticeMotherhoodRealitySaidChoicesFeelingsLifemore

Morality Quotes

“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."”

WorldHumansMeanActionDesireSocialCommunityNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityFocusMoralitySucceedSpeechMeaningfulSustainabilityInitialsNatural WorldPersonal ExperiencesAutonomousTerrainSocial Action
Author:Vaclav Havel
Create image

“When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.”

GivingMeanSelfWholeChristianTogetherFallViewsChristianityBreakFeetMoralityGiving UpConceptsFaith In GodEvidentChristian FaithChristian Morality
Book:Twilight of the Idols
Create image

“In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.”

MeanFactsGivenChurchReligiousMoralCenturyPositionMoralityEnglandInstitutionsBritishSymbols20th CenturyMonarchyMonarchsChurch Of EnglandBritish Monarchy
Author:David Starkey
Create image

“Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.”

MeanUsedPassionVirtueExpressionMoralityViolentCloaksSadisticConcealing
Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
Create image

“The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.”

MeanLittlesLongLastsFacesBeliefStrongProcessChurchTakenAtheismStyleMovementMoralityCivilizationReflectionFairsAncientTheologyPreservesDecentOppositionCustomsHarshMedievalFoul
Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
Create image

“This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.”

MenWayShouldMeanPersonsDoeImportantPoliticalEnemyVirtueMoralityBest ThingsVirtuousRulersImpressRespecting OthersDisrespectDownfallDisrespected
Author:Chanakya
Create image

“Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.”

FeelsMeanMadeI CanDifferentLightChristianFilmHumanityStrongVoiceDarkViewsAtheismBearsMoralityRaisedAtheistPositive AtheismPoint Of ViewAbsenceBuddhistLoudHumanistVery StrongTurned DownChristian MoralityLoud Voices
Author:Rachel Griffiths
Create image

“Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.”

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldKindMeanPlayWould BeGamesKnow HowNiceWonderfulMoralityEthicsIntentionBrilliantLovelyHorribleMiserableCodeEthicalHorrible ThingsUnethical
Author:Robert Greene
Create image

“There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for theother fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.”

PeopleKnowsWayFirstsHeartMeanPersonsCountryMovingTurnsBeliefWaitingDealsMinutesReadyMoralityHatredFellowsMajorityDareCivil RightsCourageousHeartedCivil Rights MovementHeadingsMeanness
Book:My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography
Create image

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

MeanMadeEndsChoicesLosesFreedomResponsibilityLibertyMoralPrinciplesVirtueConditionsPositionIgnoranceMoralityEssentialsConcernedConservativeDefenseLibertarianConsistentNeglectRootedGroundedConcentratingMoral PrinciplesMoral Choices
Author:Murray Rothbard
Create image

“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.”

ThinkingMenGivingMeanPoorClassMiddleMoralityExcuseMiddle ClassUndeserving
Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
Create image

“It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.”

WellsMeanMatterLawValuesHouseIndividualGivenTermCompanyFiguresOughtMoralityApproachCleanReasonableClawsLawmakersClean HouseFargoIndividual MoralityWells Fargo
Author:John Kasich
Create image

“I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary world views, or with "pelvic morality" as the defining issues of the Gospel? Jesus surely didn't. Jesus said to "preach the gospel to all nations", which means we do not just talk to ourselves.”

WorldTryingMeanSaidPoliticalJesusNationsViewsPartyIssuesMoralityStatementsPolitical PartiesDefiningTheologicalWorld View
Author:Richard Rohr
Create image

“I remember somebody had said to me "What're you doing with a movie like Boiler Room? It's all men and you're a woman. You should be making romantic comedies," or something like that. Boiler Room, for me, was a morality tale. I remember this interview where they said to me "Yeah, but all the characters are men," and I was like, "But I'm a girl, I like men!" It's not like there's nothing interesting to me just because a lot of characters in that movie happen to be male. Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I only wanna make Must Love Dogs over and over again.”

MenMeanCharacterRememberGirlInterestingComedyDogMoralityBoiler
Author:Suzanne Todd
Create image

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

WritingWellsMeanBookBeautifulMoralWrittenMoralityFaultsUglyBeautiful ThingsCharmingImmoralWell WrittenThere Is Hope
Author:Oscar Wilde
Create image

“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”

MeanSelfHandsIndividualKeysMoralityOffersAdvantageFollowingExceptionSelf ControlFootstepsTemperanceMoralistKey To Happiness
Book:Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition
Create image

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

MenInspirationalMeanEndsSelfPurposeReligionInterestLibertyMoralSacrificeMoralityAchievementHighestSakeEvery ManRationalSelf Interest
Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection
Create image

“Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

WellsMeanSelfIndividualResponsibilityLeaderPrinciplesEconomyDevelopmentMoralityAuthorityWorshipDenialAnarchyAnarchismAnarchistPersonal ResponsibilityAssertionRevisionSelf Responsibility
Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
Create image