Morality Quotes - Page 39

• Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

  Madame de Stael

  Kindness, Generosity, Action

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• The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.

  Francis Grund

  Religious, Order, Government

  Francis Grund (2007). “Americans”, p.307, Applewood Books

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

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Comeback

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Honesty, Integrity, Ashamed

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• In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

  George Weigel

  Issues, Rights, Views

  George Weigel (2002). “The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored”, p.164, Gracewing Publishing

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• There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

  Elliot S. Maggin

  Two, Distinction, Difficult

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• People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit the slightest mistake, they should quit their office on moral grounds without waiting to be proved guilty. Moral values must take centre stage in all walks of life.

  D. R. Karthikeyan

  Mistake, People, Office

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• Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

  Socrates

  Music, Grace, Soul

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• Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

  Helen Simonson

  Sometimes, Process, Picks

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• Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

  John Granger

  Love, Loyalty, Sacrifice

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• The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?

  J. Budziszewski

  Ideas, Creating, Judging

  J. Budziszewski (2011). “What We Can't Not Know: A Guide”, p.12, Ignatius Press

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• It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

  Friedrich Schiller

  School, Adversity, Challenges

  "The Philosophical and Aesthetic Letters and Essays".

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• During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.

  Ronald Reagan

  Presidential, Leader, Answers

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Presidential, Needs

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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• No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Presidential, Dollars

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Gun, Presidential, Criticism

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Honesty, Men, Land

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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• We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Self, Long

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Ideas, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2699, Library of Alexandria

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• Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other hand, see that taking morality seriously requires that our commitment to our country be conditional in two ways. First, the actions or policies of a government must be worthy of support or, at least, must not be serious violations of morality. When nations behave immorally, patriots need not support them.

  Stephen Nathanson

  Country, Commitment, Government

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• Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Loving Kindness, Maxims

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• It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Light, Perception, Enemy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4445, Library of Alexandria

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• The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Ideas, Results

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4445, Library of Alexandria

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• The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

  Corliss Lamont

  Past, Ethics, Ethical

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• Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

  Corliss Lamont

  Sex, Neglect, Range

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