Morality Quotes - Page 15

• Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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• Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Climbing, Iron, Mind

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• Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Running, Accomplishment, Priorities

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• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hypocrisy, Hens, Meat

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• It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Self, Respecting Others, Behavior

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• When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Ideas, Differences, World

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• It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Struggle, Character, Ideas

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• If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Kind, Ifs

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

  Orville Dewey

  Sleep, Men, Relaxation

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• If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.

  William J. Murray

  Law, Sound, Principles

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• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Powerful, Heart, Cutting

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• It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Christian, Gentleman, Too Much

  George Stillman Hillard “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army”, Charles River Editors

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• The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

  Patrick Swift

  Heroism, Development, Taste

  "Mob Morals and the Art of Loving Art". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1961.

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• Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Action, Moments

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Wells

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

  Marijane Meaker

  Responsibility, Responsible, Knows

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• Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

  Wendy Shalit

  Sexy, Modesty, Proof

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• 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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  People, Our Society, Proof

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

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• The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Mistake, Rocks, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Causes, Misery, Chiefs

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Ideology, Superiors

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• For a poet, style is the only morality.

  Jennifer Stone

  Poetry, Style, Poet

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• Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

  Paul Bloom

  Moral, Judgment, Good Things

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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