Quotes About Morality

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.