Morality Quotes
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Morality is contraband in war.
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
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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.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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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.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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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.
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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.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
