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
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honor de Balzac
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
Friedrich von Schiller
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral
LEO TOLSTOY
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
Bill Griffith
When wines were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people.
George Saintsbury
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
There can be no greater moral obligation in the environmental field than to ease out the living space and replace dereliction by beauty.
Frank Fraser Darlingâ€
WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud