Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
~By James Baldwin ~
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
~By Rob Morrow ~
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
~By John Cory ~
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Morality is contraband in war.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
~By Vine Deloria, Jr. ~
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
~By John Shimkus ~
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
~By Jane Rule ~
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
~By Neil Kurshan ~
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
~By George Whitefield ~
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
~By Joe Baca ~
Democracy without morality is impossible.
~By Jack Kemp ~
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
~By Frank Harris ~
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
~By Simone Weil ~
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.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
~By Jean Stafford ~
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
~By Peter Fonda ~
I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.
~By Amy Grant ~
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
~By William Masters ~
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
~By Noah Webster ~
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
~By E. M. Forster ~
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
~By Ayn Rand ~
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
You can't legislate morality.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.
~By Roland Barthes ~
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
~By Phil Ochs ~
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
~By Roger Penrose ~
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~By Leon Blum ~
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
~By Patricia Meyer Spacks ~
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
~By Paul Bert ~
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
~By Milan Kundera ~
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
~By Pat Robertson ~
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~By Ayn Rand ~
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
~By Robert Kocharian ~
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
~By Norman Lear ~
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
~By Socrates ~
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Conventionality is not morality.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
~By Jane Addams ~
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
~By Roger Penrose ~
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
~By George Pataki ~
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
~By Barry McGuire ~
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
~By Georges Bataille ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
~By Herman Kahn ~
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
~By Susie Bright ~
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
~By Jeff Koons ~
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
~By Malcolm Bradbury ~
Fear is the mother of morality.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
~By Karl Kraus ~
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
~By Toni Morrison ~
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
~By David Hume ~
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
~By Byron White ~
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
~By Robert Evans ~
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
~By Maria Edgeworth ~
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
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