Morality Quotes - Page 6

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Economics is not a morality play.

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.