Morality Quotes
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The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?
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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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Morality is contraband in war.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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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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Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
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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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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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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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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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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
