M Quotes
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“Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.”
Source: The New Life
“Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Late Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life
“Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence
“Morality, too, is a question of time.”
Source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library
“Morality, when formal, devours.”
“Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.”
Source: Starhunt: A Star Wolf Novel
“Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people”
“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.”
“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.”
“Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it”
Source: The Essential Mary Midgley
“Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.”
“Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.”
“Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“Morally opposed but not to the extent of losing their pensions. That part sounds creepily real.”
Source: False Memory
“Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.”
“Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.”
Source: My Tibet
“Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.”
Source: What it Takes to be Number One
“Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.”
“Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.”
“Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.”
Source: And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion
“Morals and lights are our first necessities.”
“Morals are a luxury of the rich.”
“Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.”
Source: Hadrian's Memoirs
“Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.”
“Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.”
“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
“Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.”
Source: Woman's Book: Only For Men
“Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.”
“Morals are private. Decency is public.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.”
“Morals are the luxury of the rich.”
“Morals are three-quarters manners.”
“Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Morals cannot negotiate with the tenets propagated by a deteriorating culture. Be assured that making the choice to engage in any such ‘supposed’ negotiations will kill the very morals that we’ve spent our lives claiming to defend.”
“Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches intolerance and inequality. When a parent forces a child into a religion, the parent is effectively handicapping his or her own offspring by limiting the abilities of the child to question the world around him or her and make informed decisions. Children raised under these conditions will mature believing that their religion is the only correct one, and, in the case of Christianity, they will believe that all who doubt their religion’s validity will suffer eternal damnation. This environment is one that often breeds hate, ignorance, and ‘justified’ violence.”
Source: Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings
“Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.”
“Morals, Etiquette, and Gratitude:
- Create the beauty of attitude
- Fragrance the way of talking
- Flower the level of character
- Show the right destination
- Enlighten the purpose of life
- Qualify the prestige of human
- Crown the status of humanity”
“Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.”
Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
“Morals get in the way of progress for which evil needs to prevail.”
“Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.”
“Morals," said Lionel, "are a form of insanity. Give me a moral man who insists on doing the right thing all the time, and I will show you a tangle which an angel couldn't get out of.”
Source: CliffsNotes on White's the Once and Future King
“Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?”
Source: LITTLE BLACK PIECES OF DYNAMITE INSIDE MY SKULL
“Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.”
“Morals were nothing but things to be manipulated with. They were tools you could use against others, and weapons others could use against you.”
Source: Not Even Bones
“Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.”
Source: Women