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Morality Quotes - Page 11

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

"Vidal Sassoon: this much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.51, Macmillan

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

1895 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935), ch.23.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.619, Penguin

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar