Moral Quotes - Page 52

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

The worst government is the most moral.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.