Morality Quotes

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Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. — Vincent Van Gogh
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — Albert Camus
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others. — Geraldine Ferraro
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to… — Bertrand Russell
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost?… — Thomas Sowell
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality. — Ayn Rand
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about… — Lewis Mumford
I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. — Susan Sontag
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street… — Horace Greeley
Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other. — James Fitzjames Stephen
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long… — Wilhelm Reich
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. — Mordecai Richler
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer
Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state… — Alan Dershowitz
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. — Alan Dershowitz
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the… — Jeff Koons
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. — Jeff Koons
The supreme morality of art is to endure. — Stanley Kunitz

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