Quotes of: Morality Keyword

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enfor...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adhere...

Jane Smiley

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Now I was nothing but a shade of grey - my moral compass ambiguous.

Onyx

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

P. J. O'Rourke

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Leo Burnett

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Leon Wieseltier

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Michael Biehn

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

William Weld

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Malcolm Gladwell

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.

Margo MacDonald

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

William Masters

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded...

On Being Human: Reflections on Life and Living

Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. T...

Women

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intel...

Anonymous

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd