M Quotes
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“Morality is a personal matter.”
Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
“Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.”
Source: Lesbian Images: Essays
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”
“Morality is about to die out in our generation, even a fool is defended and hidden under the invisible cloak of freedom.”
“Morality is acknowledging Blacks and Whites(Right/Wrong), of life. Spirituality is accepting the thousands of grays life has to offer.”
“Morality is all right, but what about dividends?”
“Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.”
“Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.”
“Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.”
Source: The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel
“Morality is but the vestibule of religion.”
“Morality is contraband in war.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Morality is decided by the victors”
“Morality is dialectically trumped by something else – reason and logic. Smarter people – intellectuals – are the least likely to be immoral. It’s not because they’re “better” people morally; it’s because their rationality allows them to control their irrational, selfish impulses. A rational person understands that rationally he ought to treat others well if he wants them to treat him well. “Do as you would be done by” is a rational, not a moral, assertion. An immoral person couldn’t care less about treating others as he wants to be treated; in fact, he’s determined that he shouldn’t be treated that way. He wants complete asymmetry. Only a rational person will truly obey the Golden Rule. Why? Simply because it’s the rational thing to do. If you don’t treat others well, there’s no reason for them to treat you well. If you want a nice, civilized life, make sure you offer it to everyone else. If you don’t, the people having horrible lives will have something to say about it in due course.”
Source: Kill Religion!: The Deserved Death of Faith
“Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.”
“Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.”
“Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate in a tribal way. Individuals who were more cooperative with those around them - could outcompete others who were not. However, we have the capacity to take a step back from this and ask what a more global morality would look like. Why are the lives of people on the other side of the world worth any less than those in my immediate community? Going through that reasoning process can allow our moral thinking to do something it never evolved to.”
“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”
Source: A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
“Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it.”
Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls
“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel like defecating and how to perform the act of defecation, before you actually go to defecate! You simply feel it and go defecating. The same is with morality. You don't ask a scientist, a philosopher or a priest what morality really is, and how to perform it. You simply feel it and act on it.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.”
“Morality is man’s only trustworthy guiding tool and empathy is that natural instinct in which without it the world would be a much darker place to inhabit.”
“Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.”
Source: Atheism
“Morality is mostly about how you pay attention to others. Moral behavior happens continuously throughout the day, even during the seemingly uneventful and everyday moments.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”
“Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.”
“Morality is not a set notion for everyone. We all have different values.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Morality is not a spectator sport.”
Source: Character Development in Schools and Beyond
“Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.”
“Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.”
“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
“Morality is not respectability.”
“Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety”
“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Morality is only for the middle classes, sweet. The lower class can’t afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill.”
Source: The Devil in Winter
“Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.”
“Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.”
“Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.”
“Morality is stronger than tyrants.”
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.”
“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”