Moral Quotes - Page 39

Custom alone regulates morals.

The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed - we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

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

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.