Morality Quotes - Page 24

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

You can't legislate morality.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

And here I always thought morality was useless.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.