Moral Quotes - Page 41

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

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.

The early worm deserves the bird.

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Civilization depends on morality.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

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

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

States are not moral agents.

The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.