Morality Quotes
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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
Garrett Hardin -
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Gary Bauer -
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.
Benjamin E. Sasse -
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
H. L. Mencken -
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
Oscar Wilde
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn -
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.
Karl Rahner -
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz -
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie -
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
D. H. Lawrence -
Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
Oscar Isaac -
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Erica Jong -
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
William Sloane Coffin -
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Cal Thomas -
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
Gary Bauer