Moral Quotes - Page 37

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Moral: It all depends.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.