Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Quotes

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Morality is a social necessity

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Basic moral values must therefore first be internalized in the hearts and minds of its people before we can hope to enforce legislation reflecting these values

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.