Morality Quotes - Page 23

Religion gets in the way of morality.

Ego is vital but not noble.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows individuals to form a group and to get along with each other, then the challenge is to devise a system that allows different groups to get along - what I call a meta-morality.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Morality binds and blinds.

There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Morality does not depend on religion.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of us can and they may be required to conduct themselves privately in a way that does not undermine their public authority; on the other hand, they have permission to engage in deceptions, invasions of privacy and uses of force that are forbidden to the rest of us. But this does not put them beyond common morality.

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

I think all we should legislate is morality.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.