Moral Quotes - Page 29

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.