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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft

Morality is contraband in war. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. — Jon Erickson

The only morality in a cruel world is chance. — Aaron Eckhart

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. — Benjamin Disraeli

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

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. — Ronald Frame

A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. — Paul Eldridge

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis. — John Christopher

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin. — Thomas Aquinas

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. — Robert Bork

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue; they that wish to walk in front of it must be mindful this! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters. — Jonathan King

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation ... — Robert Green Ingersoll

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit. — Brian Castro

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter. — Thomas H. Cook

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle. — Sigrid Undset

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never. — Jules Renard

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. — C.S. Lewis

In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality. — Alain De Benoist

Morality is the position you hold on abortion before your teenaged daughter gets pregnant. after that everyone acts in their own self-interest. — Mike Nemeth

All lines are gray in the dark. — Nenia Campbell

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality. — Naomi Klein

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. — Thomas Hardy

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

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice. — Alain De Botton

Have already in the fourth act killed all the Gods- for the sake of morality! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him. — Pope Benedict XVI

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. — Charles Dickens

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. — Maria Montessori

The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it. — Kavita Kane

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ... — Aldous Huxley

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so. — Eliza Haywood

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality. — Albert Einstein

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in. — Sarah Addison Allen

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan. — Noam Chomsky

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. — Steven J. Carroll

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? — Ayn Rand

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement. — Thomas Robert Malthus

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Your morality isn't the only morality in the world. Just because it's yours doesn't mean it's right. — Kendare Blake

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity. — Criss Jami

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is a contraband in war. — Mahatma Gandhi

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell

Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society. — Saaif Alam

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently. — Jose Bergamin

Religion gets in the way of morality. — Kim Campbell

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality. — Sadao Araki

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain. — John Kennedy Toole

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. — Archibald Alexander

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. — Zack Snyder

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent. — Gary Bauer

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw. — George Bernard Shaw

in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society — Francis A. Schaeffer

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. — Gore Vidal

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no honour in betraying your friends. — Madeline Miller

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. — Swami Vivekananda

Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it. — Frans De Waal

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form. — Christopher Hitchens

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right. — Neal Shusterman

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. — Lafcadio Hearn

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large. — Alan Arkin

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C.S. Lewis

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. — Margherita Hack

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

An impostor would not have the same value as the original person in society. — Saaif Alam

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work. — Martin McDonagh

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. — Bill Condon

In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is "in trouble," she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2 - helping). — George Lakoff

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. — Adam Smith

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble. — Nachman Of Breslov

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. — Bertrand Russell

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. — Christopher Hitchens