Morality Quotes - Page 13

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.

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

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

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

Civilization depends on morality.

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

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

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

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.