Quotes About Morality

A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

Later he insisted that "nudity was never a big thing in my movies. When my characters took off their clothes, you wanted them to put them back on.

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

I don't follow God's commandments; I follow Satan's commandments.

If you think about it even medium-hard, launching a scared little dog into space with no intention of getting it back is a seriously fucked thing to do.

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

Seguiré siendo testigo aun cuando no haya un solo ser humano que me pida mi estimonio

Ich kann in gut und böse die Welt nicht teilen; nicht in zwei Zweige der Vernunft, nicht in gesund und krank. Wenn ich die Welt teilen wollte, müsst ich die Axt an mich selber legen, mein Inneres spalten, dem angeekelten Publikum die beiden Hälften hinhalten, dass es Grund hat die Nase zu rümpfen: Wo bleibt die Reinlichkeit. Ja, unrein ist was ich vorzuweisen habe. Nicht zum Reinbeißen und Runterschlucken. Zum Weglaufen, Günderrode.

Darf der Mensch wohl alles tun, was recht ist, oder muß er sich damit begnügen, daß nur alles recht ist, was er tut?

Es ist so eingerichtet, daß nicht nur die, die Unrecht erdulden müssen, auch die, die Unrecht tun, ihres Lebens nicht froh werden. Überhaupt frage ich mich, ob die Lust, andere Leben zu zerstören, nicht daher kommt, daß man am eigenen Leben so wenig Lust und Freude hat.

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

By 1971, 58 percent of Americans had concluded that the war in Vietnam was not just a mistake, but immoral.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Another, more basic reason is that even being able to know or define in the first place what hurts or helps other people often itself requires reference to certain moral standards and understandings of what is good and bad.

Anthropologist Richard Grossinger, Ph.D., puts it this way: "Guess what? God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him [or her], to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes.

Upright and do right make all right.

Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Upright and do right make all right.

If you going to steal a book thought, you should at least take the nicest one, otherwise what's the point?

Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.

Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves." "Actually,