Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality. – Haile Selassie
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. – H. L. Mencken
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we’ve been told to behave. – Greg Graffin
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. – George Combe
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. – Henry Mayhew
I can’t help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country. – Helen Mirren
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium. – Hari Kunzru
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. – Havelock Ellis
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. – Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband, Act 2, Mrs. Cheveley.
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
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. – Herman Kahn
If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don’t they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every ‘Passion of the Christ,’ there’s a ‘Fireproof’ that comes and goes with no notice. – John Ridley
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. – Joseph Addison
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams… but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. – Jonathan Haidt
Even I haven’t downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality. – John Ridley
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality. – John F. Kennedy
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense. – Baron d’Holbach
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths. – Annie Besant
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. – Ayn Rand
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. – Archibald Alexander