Quotes with morality

  • The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
  • 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.
  • All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
  • There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
  • Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Civilization depends on morality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Socrates 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.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Graham Greene Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Ben Shapiro 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Milan Kundera A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Allen Tate A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • William Winwood Reade 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.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Alexander Herzen 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.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Barry McGuire 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.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Condon But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Compassion is the basis of morality.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Jack Kemp Democracy without morality is impossible.
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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