Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

The market has no morality

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.