Quotes
Quotes about Morality
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires.
Nor public flame nor private dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire Chaos is restor'd,
Light dies before thy uncreating word;
Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall,
And universal darkness buries all.
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries or distinctions of race.
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Art and morality have little to say to each other
I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something, too, of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality
There is divine morality and that is the only morality which is important
Electricity comes from electrons; morality comes from morons.
It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709 As we shared together our feelings about the study groups, we realised that we were not meeting together each week for an intellectual exercise: some thing very real and significant was taking place. We were coming to know that the Christian faith is not primarily an ethic; it is not the struggle to do good or be good, but an encounter with Christ, of which morality and ethical living are by-products.
