“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...” — Steven J. Carroll Copy Share Image
The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, 'Because I can, I should protect people, and I should… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were… — azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“[ From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still,… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. — David Novak Copy Share Image