Morality Quotes - Page 23

• Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

  Ayn Rand

  Numbers, Rights, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.245, Penguin

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• Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

  Herbert Read

  Animal, Literature, Form

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Happiness, Brain, Weakness

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• The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Foundation, Jew

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• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Acceptance, Reality, Air

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

  John Ruskin

  Taste, Ethics

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 2 (1866)

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• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

  George Saunders

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Looks, Natural, Expected

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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• You can't legislate morality.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jesse Ventura (1999). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

  George Washington

  Inspiring, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.162

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• Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

  George Washington

  Book, 4th Of July, Preparation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Pregnancy, Religion

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.245

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• What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Past, People, Evil

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• Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

  Julian Baggini

  Emotion, Unlikely, Seems

  "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

  Julian Baggini

  Law, Citizenship, Legality

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• Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

  Frans de Waal

  Empathy, Unthinkable, Humans

  "Science overturns view of humans as naturally 'nasty'". phys.org. February 20, 2012.

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• Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

  Frans de Waal

  May

  "He studies where morals come from". Interview with Kelly Murray, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2013.

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• The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

  Frans de Waal

  Compassion, Justice, Pillars

  "Monkeys Join Wall Street Protest" by Frans de Waal, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

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• We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Reality, Somewhere Else

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• I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

  Jonathan Haidt

  School, Goal, India

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• 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

  Ideas, Savages, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.13, Harper Collins

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