Quotes About Morality

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

Right attitudes produces right action

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Alcohol makes people do stupid things, but it doesn't turn a good guy into a rapist, and neither did you.