Morality Quotes

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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. — Sigmund Freud
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
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
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
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. — Horace
Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome. — Mohammad Khatami
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism. — Paul Ryan
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
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
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis
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
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
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be — Oscar Wilde
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
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
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. — Erica Jong
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
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
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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