Morality Quotes
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
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Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
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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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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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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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There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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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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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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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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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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.
