Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
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.
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving up one's home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower's credit rating.
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
