Morality Quotes - Page 38

• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Motherhood, Expression, Abuse

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Essence, Judging, May

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Undesirable

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• Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Individualism, Fantastic

  "Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus?" By Onkar Ghate, www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, Best Job

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• To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Errors, Names, Abuse

  Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Ḥalimī (1962). “Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion”, Andre Deutsch

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• I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Thinking, Practice

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• You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are essentially without morality. In your system of life we must forever appear graceless; to us you must forever appear godless.

  Maurice Samuel

  Forever, Honor, Way

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• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Catholic, World, Christianity

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• His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Should

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

  Alain de Botton

  Contentment, World, Madness

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• Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Men, Law

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.104, InterVarsity Press

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• The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Cynical, Causes

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

  Erica Jong

  Cynical, Monogamy, Driven

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.110, Penguin

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• Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Lying, Biblical

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• Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

  Pat Buchanan

  Heart, Character, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Fashion, Sex

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• For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Political, Doubt

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Religious, Children, Military

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• There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

  William Bennett

  Life, Children, Power

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Derek Jarman

  Sex, Gay, Rights

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Form, Judaism, Extremes

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• Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

  Madame de Stael

  Kindness, Generosity, Action

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• The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.

  Francis Grund

  Religious, Order, Government

  Francis Grund (2007). “Americans”, p.307, Applewood Books

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

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Comeback

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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