Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

Desierto: Memories of the Future

Nicioadata nu aprob sau dezaprob un lucru, e o atitudine absurda fata de viata. Nu suntem trimisi in lume ca sa ne exibitionam prejudecatile morale" - Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

The Eyre Affair

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

East of Eden

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

The Ellison Effect

I've learned far too much to know everything.

Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Fearlessly Feminine

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Fanny's First Play

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Howl's Moving Castle

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

The Art of War

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

The Brothers Karamazov

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Bouvard and Pecuchet

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.

Robert Evans

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

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

Julian Baggini

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini