MORALITY QUOTES II

quotations about morality

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

JANE ADDAMS

Democracy and Social Ethics

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The main objection to absolute morality is that even if there were absolute moral standards we should have no way of knowing whether we had found them.

WALTER KAUFMANN

The Faith of the Heretic


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

EMILE DURKHEIM

Suicide

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Bad company ruins good morals.

PAUL OF TARSUS

1 Corinthians 15:33


There's nothing that throws off your moral compass like love.

RAMSEY SHEHADEH

"The Diner on the Edge of Hell", Weird Tales, Summer 2011

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Our moral traditions, like many other aspects of our culture, developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

FRIEDRICH HAYEK

The Fatal Conceit


The important thing about morality is its spirit, its underlying aims, and the general picture of ethical life it implies.

BERNARD WILLIAMS

"Morality, the Peculiar Institution", Virtue Ethics


Those kinds of morals and that kind of religion which tend to make the firmest and most effectual character are sure to prevail, all else being the same; and creeds or systems that conduce to a soft limp mind tend to perish, except some hard extrinsic force keep them alive.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation

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

G. K. CHESTERTON

Orthodoxy

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

JANE ADDAMS

attributed, Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes

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All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

letter to Mr. B., March 27, 1848

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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

H. L. MENCKEN

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality is a visible indicator of human culture, a mirror of the nature of individuals and peoples.

DIMITAR STANKOV

"The Moral Culture of the Person", Morality and public life in a time of change


The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

preface, Fanny's First Play

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Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook B", The Waste Books

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Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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In the slow but general moral advance certain men lag a little behind the rate if progress of the community as a whole; and where their own real or fancied interests are concerned, such men fail to recognize generally accepted standards of right and wrong until long after they have been recognized by the majority of their fellows.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech at Progressive Party Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 17, 1912

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