Top 288 Morality Quotes

I’ve made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I’ve always refused to sign.

Part of the new morality of the ’60s and ’70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn’t define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that’s fine.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

‘Noah’ doesn’t merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it’s bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.

I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality – especially by the financial sector – rather than a problem of regulation or criminality. There were, of course, regulatory lessons to be learned, but at heart, there was a collective loss of our moral compass.

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

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation’s culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that – however moral its pose – is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.

It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I don’t believe in a personal god. It’s good to give thanks, whether or not there’s a god. There’s no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don’t expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

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

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

The only morality I’m interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player’s ears, because that’s the interesting thing to me.

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

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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.

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.

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

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn’t.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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.

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

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.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It’s always in process.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

I’m leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality – doing so also serves our national security interests.

We don’t need any more regulation from government. You don’t need overarching moralism to tell you how to live because human beings actually have a pretty well-developed moral center. The more government intrudes on the basic decisions you make, the further away you get from your natural morality.

Gay marriage was a trick: it’s a tool to tell people to bake cakes. Laws are based on morality, so if it’s illegal for a Catholic to refuse a ceremony, you are saying that Catholicism is immoral, and that was really the goal of gay marriage – discredit Christianity.

Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, ‘morality.’ Morality is the ‘idea’ of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an ‘intellectual’ man, a so-called independent, a ‘freethinker.’

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

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

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.