Quotes of: Moral-values Keyword

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

Edward Zwick

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Johan Huizinga

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

John Shelby Spong

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

Alan Dershowitz

No matter how cold this world gets, please don't lose touch of morality and allow it to turn your heart cold.

Edmond Mbiaka

It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media interest lies with my moral alignment.

Erin O'Connor

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Charles Darwin

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

Charles Darwin

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

C.S. Lewis

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Italo Calvino

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Julie Burchill

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Jeanne Calment

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Cheever