1,889 Quotes About Morality

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)