Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it. — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong.… — Pamela Warrick Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“A time when morality will keep shifting, you need something that stands straight and can stay in place.” — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
