M Quotes
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“Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.”
“Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”
“Morality is to Scriptures, what Innovation is to Comic-Books.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”
Source: Made in the Image of God: Understanding the Nature of God and Mankind in a Changing World
“Morality is truth in full bloom.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.”
“Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.”
“Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.”
Source: Social Statics: Great Essays
“Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.”
“Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.”
Source: An essay on intuitive morals [by F.P. Cobbe] 2 pt
“Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.”
“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self above the interest of the group. In the real world, you have to be a little selfish (immoral) to take care of yourself and accumulate the riches, and only then can you afford to become selfless (moral) by distributing what you have accumulated.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.”
“Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.”
“Morality must come from the heart, not hagiographies.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.”
“Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.”
Source: A Case of Need: A Novel
“Morality never scratch the back of corruption”
“Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.”
Source: David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events
“Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.”
“Morality protects us from the permissiveness that didn’t see cliff.”
“Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.”
Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.”
Source: Bunyan
“Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.”
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable”
“Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really”
“Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.”
“Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.”
“Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.”
Source: Speech in Season
“Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.”
“Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.”
“Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.”
“Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.”
“Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.”
Source: Freedom: Its Meaning
“Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”
“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
“Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.”
Source: Lesbian Images: Essays
“Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.”
“Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.”