Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

John Gray

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ricardo Morales: How do you live a life full of nothing?

The Secret in Their Eyes

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Arthur Holly Compton

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

Kirk Cameron

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

John Ridley

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Richard Pryor

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

Alex Borstein

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Ayn Rand

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

Frank Rich

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.

Diary of a Small Fish

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Ethics

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

First Principles