Morality Quotes

The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions...No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul.

Moral force is, unhappily, no substitute for armed force, but it is a very great reinforcement.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.