Morality Quotes - Page 40

• When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Pride, Suits You, Giving

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• Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Honesty, Integrity, Punishment

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• The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Respect, Integrity, Self Esteem

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

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• How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

  David Hume

  Character, Law, Government

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.73

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• It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious to the peace of civil society.

  David Hume

  Wise, Philosophy, Jealous

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human life, as to what is good and what is evil. This is true in the present day as at any former time. To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers. There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Evil

  "History of Western Philosophy".

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• Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Results, Deep Ecology

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• It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

  Larry Christenson

  Fathers Day, Children, Law

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• And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Party, Broken

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• Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Integrity, Consistency, Needs

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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• Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Simple, Understanding, Mind

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.4, Vintage

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Reality, Blind

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• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

  Huston Smith

  Art, Law, Essence

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Issues, Justice

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Art, Consciousness

  Isaiah Berlin (1993). “The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Danger, Accepting, Fixed

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

  Bill Condon

  Years, Doe, Imposition

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• There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ignorance, Fate, Pride

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• Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Religious, Mean, Space

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  Thinking, Issues, Political

  "College Poll: Religion, Morality Play Important Roles in Politics" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 14, 2006.

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• It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

  Phil Ochs

  Wisdom, Art, Struggle

  "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.

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• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Swings, Self

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Hate, Triumph, Criminals

  "The Revolutionary Catechism" by Sergey Nechayev, www.marxists.org. 1869.

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