Best 1590 quotes in «morality quotes» category

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

We moralize among ruins.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.