Source: Twilight of the Idols
Morality Quotes
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Morality Quotes
“Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.”
“It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.”
“Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”
Source: John Donne: The Major Works
“Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.”
Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World
“Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence
“I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.”
Source: Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.”
Source: Notebooks, 1942-1951
“Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.”
Source: Ferraro: My Story
Source: History of Western Philosophy
Source: Georges Braque
“Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.”
Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard
“A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Source: The Discovery of the Orgone
“No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”
“It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.”
Source: The Best Defense
“As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.”
“Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.”
“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
“Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.”
“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
“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Morality is contraband in war.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence