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Quotes about Morality

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
— Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of society's virtue.
— Ayn Rand
Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices
— Ayn Rand
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
— Ayn Rand
One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!
— Ayn Rand
The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality of Life.
— Ayn Rand
All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle, said Jessica Pratt, the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much more important than freedom. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness. I would have everybody who refused to be unselfish shot. To put them out of their misery. They can't be happy anyway.
— Ayn Rand
I shall remind you thatrights are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that are derived from man's nature as a rational being and represent a necessary condition of his particular mode of survival. I shall remind you also that the right to life is the source of all rights, including the right to property.
— Ayn Rand
Paray? lanetleyen insan, onu ?erefsizce elde etmi?tir; ona sayg? duyan insan, hak ederek kazanm??t?r.
— Ayn Rand
Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we'd be crippled with indecision. But with religion pointing the way, we can feel confident in our choice to picket our children's elementary school when we find out the art teacher is gay.
— Stephen Colbert
Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.
— Stephen Covey
Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning.
— Stephen Jay Gould