Morality Quotes - Page 26

• ... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Self, Hatred

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Aunt, Men, Wells

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.

  Sam Harris

  Philosophical, Years, Two

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• The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Errors, Race, Confusing

  "Man and Superman". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

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• Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

  Hermann Hesse

  Important, Gestures, Behavior

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan

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• To live at all is miracle enough.

  Mervyn Peake

  Inspirational, Miracle, Religion

  Mervyn Peake (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.307, Carcanet

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• Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Religion, Do Unto Others

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• Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

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• While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nature, Looks, Spirit

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Military, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, People, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Doubt, Balance

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• If you can't do something smart, do something right.

  Joss Whedon

  Smart, Firefly, Serenity

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Decency

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3039, e-artnow

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• Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

  Ian Mcewan

  Compassion, Essence, Humanity

  "Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers" by Ian Mcewan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.

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• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  Rachel Caine

  Selfish, Dark, Survival

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Total Eclipse”, p.103, Allison & Busby

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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

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• it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel’s wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity

  Michel Houellebecq

  Loyalty, Home, Angel

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• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Fall, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• …the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Heart, Men, Vanity

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• He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Smell, Corruption

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• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

  Confucius

  Music, Profound, Desire

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• For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Sacrifice, Self

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Physics, Algebra

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Rebuilding, Elegance

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