Morality Quotes

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Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. — Donald Judd
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance… — Hari Kunzru
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. — Llewelyn Powys
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. — David E. Kelley
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters. — Jonathan King
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate â€˜knowledgeâ€™ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and… — G. C. Berkouwer
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when… — Stanley Milgram
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree… — Thomas Jefferson
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the… — Pope Francis
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality. — Thomas Sowell
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. — Thomas Sowell
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because… — Francis Chan
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. — Jayne Anne Phillips
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal… — John Galt
Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the… — Philip Rieff
The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned. — Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and… — Charles Derber
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. — V. Raymond Edman

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