Quotes on the topic: Morality


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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.


I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.


It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.


If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.


Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.


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


I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.


Compassion is the basis of morality.


The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.


Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.


It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.


Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.


He was as great as a man can be without morality.


Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.


Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.


Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.


Force always attracts men of low morality.


Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.


All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.


The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.