Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

Fear is the mother of morality.

First the pork chops, then morality

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.