Morality Quotes - Page 11

• Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Permanent, Temporary

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forgiveness, Wise, Ignorance

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• Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Community, Survival, Moral Ethics

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.336, Routledge

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

  Doors, Tyrants, Kind

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Without freedom there can be no morality.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

  Prince

  Music, Temptation, Hard

  Song: Gett Off

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• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  Georges Bataille

  Moving, Light, Essence

  "The Dualist Materialism of Georges Bataille". Paper by Denis Hollier. Yale French Studies No. 78 ("On Bataille"), pp. 124-139, www.jstor.org. September 26, 1990.

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• The higher the building the lower the morals.

  Noel Coward

  Literature, Architecture, Building

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• Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

  Aleister Crowley

  Nature, Fighting, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Daughter, Mother, Character

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• When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Ideas, Differences, World

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• It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Struggle, Character, Ideas

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• Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Agreement, Matter, Concern

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

  Margaret Halsey

  Sports, Night, Government

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• If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Kind, Ifs

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

  Anita Roddick

  Fool, Difficult, Objects

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Doe, Praying

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.6

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

  Orville Dewey

  Sleep, Men, Relaxation

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• If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.

  William J. Murray

  Law, Sound, Principles

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• The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

  Myrtle Reed

  Negative, Conventions, Interest

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

  Sigrid Undset

  Bottles, Empty, Perfume

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• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Powerful, Heart, Cutting

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• It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Christian, Gentleman, Too Much

  George Stillman Hillard “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army”, Charles River Editors

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Business, Children

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• The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

  Patrick Swift

  Heroism, Development, Taste

  "Mob Morals and the Art of Loving Art". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1961.

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