We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs the attention of intellectual women most desperately.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
