Morality Quotes - Page 21

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Morality is the object of government.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

Modern morality is all about perception.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.