Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is t...
Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.
If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.
When you increase in learning and education, you increase your ability to act, and you have a chance to improve your circumstances.
No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
