Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Cal Thomas

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Jeanne Shaheen

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Andre Weil

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
John Shimkus

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
William Masters

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
Huston Smith

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Sarah Zettel

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Maria Edgeworth

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
Marc Maron

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie