Morality Quotes - Page 12

• Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Action, Moments

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Wells

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

  Marijane Meaker

  Responsibility, Responsible, Knows

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• Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

  Wendy Shalit

  Sexy, Modesty, Proof

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• moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  People, Our Society, Proof

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

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• [Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Ideology, Superiors

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• What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.

  Eve Ensler

  Real, Opposites, Two

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Mistake, Rocks, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Causes, Misery, Chiefs

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.

  Michael Pollan

  Dream, Powerful, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Law, Greed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

  Brock Chisholm

  Civilization, America, Propaganda

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• We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

  Sadao Araki

  Military, Causes, Hesitation

  "Behind the Japanese Mask" by Jesse Frederick Steiner, (p. 43), 1943.

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• Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Perfection, Car, Worship

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

  African Spir

  Religious, Art, Philosophy

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Data, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

  African Spir

  Evil, Training, Coercion

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.

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• Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

  African Spir

  Discipline, Bears, Action

  "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p. 59, 1937.

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• I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

  Jennifer Stone

  Art, Believe, I Believe

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• For a poet, style is the only morality.

  Jennifer Stone

  Poetry, Style, Poet

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• There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins... I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

  David Tennant

  Nice, Thinking, Want

  "David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' - interview". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

  Brian Dennehy

  Believe, Matter, Opinion

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• Morality is the object of government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Objects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.679, Harvard University Press

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• There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Argument, Should

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