Moral Quotes - Page 27

... moral evil is its own curse.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.