Morals Quotes

• In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Balance
  • Trading
  • Fixed

• What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Words
  • Command
  • Blind obedience

• Morals are a luxury of the rich.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Rich
  • Luxury
  • Morals

• The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Society
  • Religion

• The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.

  

  Bernard Lazare
  • Faith
  • Christ
  • Satisfied

• The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dangerous
  • Criminal
  • Morals

• I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness – to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Morals

• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Sex
  • Games
  • Generation

• Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing with the mind’s eye of some empirical order in its object, but an endeavour to realize in thought an ideal order which would satisfy an inner demand. The nearer thought comes to its goal, the more it finds itself under constraint by that goal, and dominated in its creative effort by aesthetic or moral or logical relevance. These relations of relevance are not physical or psychological relations. They are normative relations that can enter into the mental current because that current is . . . teleological. Their operation marks the presence of a different type of law, which supervenes upon physical and psychological laws when purpose takes control.

  

  Brand Blanshard
  • Art
  • Control
  • Reflection

• What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Care
  • Morals
  • Machinery

• It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Decision
  • Philosophers

• Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Morals

• HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Morals
  • Higgins

• The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Music
  • Theory
  • Effect

• Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

  

  Aime Martin
  • Laws
  • Slaves
  • Empire

• What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?

  

  Susan Barker
  • Morals
  • Corrupt
  • Clinging

• If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.

  

  Steven Yeun
  • Nature
  • Relationship
  • Indicator

• The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised. The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one. The change should be concerning your belief, your morals, your actions, your dealings, your decisions, and your efforts. Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
  • Change
  • Revolution
  • Actions

• But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.

  

  Kate Quinn
  • Without
  • Morals

• Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Morals
  • Governor

• Science is the repository of the experience and thinking of the human race. It is mainly through science that the ideas, and then the morals and life of people, are improved.

  

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Morals

• I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Children
  • Cross
  • Marrying

• I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

  

  Essie Davis
  • I Think
  • Morals

• I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.

  

  Amanda McKittrick Ros
  • Work
  • Critics
  • Morals

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