Morality Quotes - Page 36

• But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness is a powerful force, particularly in the decisions of individuals, but whenever groups of people come together to make a sustained effort to change the world, you can bet that they are pursuing a vision of virtue, justice, or sacredness.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Powerful, Selfish, Years

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Procrastination, Hunting, Issues

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• Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Philosophy, Fire

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Jesus, Real

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• We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Honesty, Teaching

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• The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

  Izaak Walton

  Life, Learning, Loss

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• Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.

  Charles Carroll of Carrollton

  Christian, Government, Sublime

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• Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

  Benedetto Croce

  Party, Equality, Expression

  Benedetto Croce (1942). “Freedom: Its Meaning”

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• These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Love, Appreciation, Loneliness

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• What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.

  George Leef

  Hurt, Cancer, Government

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• ...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it cannot be supposed that the inspired Apostles ... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church. In proving this subject justifiable by Scriptural authority [Luke 12:47], its morality is also proved; for the Divine Law never sanctions immoral actions.

  Richard Furman

  Christian, Law, Evil

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• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Girl, Strong, Integrity

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Men, Trouble

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• You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Integrity, Doors, Keys

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• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

  Jane Rule

  Integrity, Tests, Conformity

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Successful, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophical, Perfection, Would Be

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Utilitarianism”, p.25

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• cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

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• Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Psychology

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.

  Michael Ruse

  Christian, Alternatives, Today

  "How evolution became a religion: creationists correct?". Article by Michael Ruse, May 13, 2000.

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• There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Organization, People, Different

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

  Georg Brandes

  Slave, Pariahs

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• Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Time, Learning

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• I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Ignorance, Law

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Town Geology”, p.15

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Obligation

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1987, Library of Alexandria

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