Morality Quotes

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Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality in Europe today is herd-morality — Friedrich Nietzsche
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't… — Rajneesh
In morals, always do as others do; in art, never. — Jules Renard
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. — D. H. Lawrence
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's… — Robert Frost
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. — John Donne
Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival. — Dalai Lama
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! — Robert Burns
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. — Lou Reed
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. — Oliver Goldsmith
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque

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