Morality Quotes
1733 quotes by 945 authors
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
— Sigmund Freud
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
— John Stuart Mill
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own…
— Herbert Marcuse
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Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning…
— Hannah Arendt
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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
— Horace
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Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.
— Mohammad Khatami
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Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.
— Paul Ryan
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I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.
— Paul Ryan
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To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
— Wynton Marsalis
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You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are…
— Maurice Samuel
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The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith,…
— Bernard Lazare
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
— Oscar Wilde
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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
— Alain de Botton
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Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality…
— Francis Schaeffer
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
— Erica Jong
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Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify…
— Pat Buchanan
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Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading…
— Pat Buchanan
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The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who…
— Jean Baudrillard
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