Morality Quotes
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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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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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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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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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Morality is contraband in war.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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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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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
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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 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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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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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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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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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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"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.
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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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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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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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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
