All Quotes

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

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

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Morality is the weakness of the brain.
‐‐ Arthur Rimbaud

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
‐‐ Jane Rule

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
‐‐ Leon Blum

Morality must be above legality, but it must be like a covering glove, not like an acting arm.
‐‐ Edward Asiminei

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
‐‐ Sam Harris

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.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
‐‐ Adam Weishaupt

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
‐‐ Pierre Schaeffer

Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.
‐‐ Henry Selick

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

Morals are private. Decency is public.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
‐‐ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.
‐‐ Roger Wicker

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.
‐‐ Randy Neugebauer

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
‐‐ Anthony Weiner

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being family-friendly is a smart investment in their workforce and America's future.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
‐‐ James Levine

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
‐‐ Damon Albarn

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
‐‐ John Darnielle

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
‐‐ Craig Brown

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
‐‐ Amelie Nothomb

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.
‐‐ Jim Beaver

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.
‐‐ Andrew Lo

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.
‐‐ Michael K. Powell