Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
Penn Jillette
FearHopeReligionRewardMorality
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
Nina Bawden
ChildrenStrongerMoralityThanMuch
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
Martin McDonagh
WorkHopeMoralityKindSome
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Kirk Cameron
LawSocietyRule Of LawMoralityAny
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
JusticeLookBackMoralityAlways
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
ArtDrawingMoralityLineSomewhere
Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
FearMotherMorality
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
Eric Alterman
MoralityOverWithoutAnythingSome
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Bill Condon
ScienceMoralityBecomeYearsBelong
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer
LifeMeMoralityReverencePrinciple
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
Will Self
TruthStyleMeWorldFallMorality
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
Lawrence Kohlberg
BadMoralityClassHoldMiddleJust
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
George Clooney
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'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
Adeel Akhtar
PeopleLaughComedySeriousMorality
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Sam Harris
ScienceHealthMoralityMoreSocial
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz
PoetrySocietyManifestMorality
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
LoveKnowledgeGreatFallMorality
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
ReligionMoralityHumanDifference
You can't legislate morality.
Jesse Ventura
YouMoralityLegislate
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
WrongMoralityHumanRightActMust
There's no such thing as morality.
Robert M. Pirsig
MoralityThing
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
ArtMindMoralityMoralPassionate
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
PassionAmericanMoralityMoviesWhy
Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.
Trevor Jackson
SilenceMoralityAnythingYourPart
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