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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .
Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.
I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.