Quotes of: Morality Keyword

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Davis

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Robert Sean Leonard

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Thomas Jefferson

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Roland Barthes

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Thomas Huxley

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

Alice Bag

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Adam Smith

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Billy Crudup

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Love

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

Dennis Kucinich

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of ...

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.” Vittoria was amazed at Koh...

Angels & Demons

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reache...

Anna Karenina

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inherita...

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He ca...

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused abou...

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Nothing good was withheld from me, even moral guidance was provided as my uncle read to me nightly out of a King James red-letter edition Bible. “Them’s the Good Lord’s words in red,” he would say reverently. These lessons installed in me a s...

Torn From the Inside Out

Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this reason - though there are other reasons - one must take g...

A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age