Quotes About Morality

Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.

the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?  They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. It will be to each man what he is himself. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Conciencia y cobardía son lo mismo realmente, Basil. La conciencia es el nombre comercial de la empresa. Eso es todo

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

Cuando somos felices siempre somos buenos, pero cuando somos buenos no siempre somos felices

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

I remember saying once to André Gide, as we sat together in some Paris café, that while meta-physics had but little real interest for me, and morality absolutely none, there was nothing that either Plato or Christ had said that could not be transferred immediately into the sphere of Art and there find its complete fulfilment.

Kiedy jeste?my szcz??liwi, zawsze jeste?my dobrzy, ale kiedy jeste?my dobrzy, nie zawsze jeste?my szcz??liwi.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

Für den Philosophen sind die Frauen der Triumph der Materie über den Geist, - genau wie die Männer der Triumph des Geistes über die Moral sind.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.