“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines… — Lucas Bale Copy Share Image
A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything?… — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image
It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“My father’s generation, who for the most part did not know Christ, knew at least there was a right and a wrong.… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Press conference [on the movie Carrington ] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
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