Morality Quotes

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Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.) — Albert Camus
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath. — Sinclair Lewis
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated… — Theodor Adorno
Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work… — Ursula Vernon
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from… — Milton Friedman
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. — Osamu Dazai
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. — Jonathan Haidt
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical;… — Frederic Bastiat
...idea at play here is that of â€œmorality.â€ When young women are taught about morality, thereâ€™s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity.… — Jessica Valenti
My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't. — Anthony Venn-Brown
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington
The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and… — Catherynne M. Valente
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side… — Jonathan Haidt
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal;… — Walter E. Williams
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others. — Jo Nesbo
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while… — Vaclav Havel
The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit… — Surya Das
I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didnâ€™t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of… — Marilyn Manson
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… — Walter Mosley

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