Quotes of: Morality Keyword

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

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Edmund Burke

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Billy Graham

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

Herman Kahn

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

Joyce Carol Oates

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

John Podhoretz

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Joel C. Rosenberg

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Jeffrey Tucker

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Damian Lewis

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

Jefferson Davis