Morality Quotes - page 8

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. (William Jones)
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. View quote
Bill Condon
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood. View quote
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work. View quote
Steven D. Levitt
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state.... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! View quote
Heinrich von Treitschke
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. View quote
Mark Hopkins
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality. View quote
Armstrong Williams
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. View quote
David E. Kelley
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. View quote
Eric Alterman
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. View quote
George W. Romney
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. (Gary Bauer)
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. View quote
Henry Mayhew
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. View quote
Jane Rule
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. View quote
John Shimkus
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years. View quote
Larry Hagman
I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life. View quote
Lee Pace
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity. View quote
Michael Burgess
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. View quote
Norman Lear
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. View quote
Peter Fonda
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies. View quote
Rob Morrow
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. (Robert Reich)
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time. View quote
Robin Day
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. View quote
Roland Allen
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. View quote
Sherwin B. Nuland
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings. View quote
Samuel West