Moral Quotes - Page 44

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, Could we really make it live as art? There was an almost moral dimension.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

I do not think homosexuality is immoral.

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

I say, break the law.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.