Morality Quotes

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

~ William A. Dembski

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

~ Vine Deloria

Fear is the mother of morality.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

~ Norman Lear

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

~ Leon Blum

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

~ Herbert Spencer

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

~ Tommy Douglas

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

~ George Clooney

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

~ Michele Bachmann

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

~ Roger Penrose

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

~ Kara Walker

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

~ Bob Woodward

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

~ Emma Goldman

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

~ Thomas Jefferson

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

~ James Baldwin

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

~ Octavio Paz

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

~ Ayn Rand

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

~ H. L. Mencken

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

~ Kirk Cameron

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

~ Karl Rahner

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