Morality Quotes - Page 25

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'