Morality Quotes

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

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

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

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.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.