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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.
I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.