Morality Quotes - Page 13

• Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

  Aime Martin

  Country, Law, Giving

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• Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

  Boris Sidis

  Religious, Agency, Evil

  Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

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• Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Self, Respecting Others, Behavior

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• in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Home, Order, Anchors

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Freedom

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• Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Purpose, Stolen, Humanism

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• This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Men, Political

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• The great enemy of morality is indifference.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Enemy, Indifference

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• Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

  Jonathan Haidt

  War, People, Giving

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• I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Mind, Brown

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• It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

  Peter Singer

  Mistake, Law, Assuming

  Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Meditation, Three

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Light, Race

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• We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

  Ian Svenonius

  America, Insane, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

  Jo Nesbo

  Balance, Essentials, Needs

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• Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Feelings, Mind, World

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• When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Destiny, Thinking, Meaning Of Life

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• The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

  Walter E. Williams

  Christian, Party, Political

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• To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

  Bill Mollison

  Consciousness, Nonsense, Claims

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• I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Found

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.391, LSU Press

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Balance, Novelists, Thumbs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

  Martin McDonagh

  Kind

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• Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to
  experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend
  into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate
  enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging
  judge in robes.

  Richard Grossinger

  Play, Judging, Darkness

  Richard Grossinger (2012). “On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes”, p.78, North Atlantic Books

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• The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

  Carlo Levi

  Evil, Soul, World

  Carlo Levi (2008). “Fear of Freedom: With the Essay, "Fear of Painting"”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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