morality quotes

• Compassion is the basis of all morality. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [compassion/basis/]
• Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them. (Antonin Artaud) [people//wonder/source]
• But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. (James Baldwin) [/power/power/]
• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. (Georges Bataille) [essence///human]
• Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Blum) [/courage/choice]
• Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. (Charlotte Bronte) [/religion/attack/face]
• For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. (Thomas Carlyle) [/desire/time/blindness]
• Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! (Thomas Carlyle) []
• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [art//drawing]
• The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [/color/virtue/avoidance]
• Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. (Aleister Crowley) [/people]
• Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. (Aleister Crowley) [/etiquette/people/facts]
• Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. (Emile Durkheim) [/]
• Civilization depends on morality. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) []
• The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [divorce/religion/]
• Morality is contraband in war. (Mahatma Gandhi) [/war]
• How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. (John Gay) [mother//pleasure/cheating]
• Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? (Emma Goldman) [/mother/more/more]
• Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. (William Hazlitt) [opinion/exception/]
• Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [/product/trust/trust]
• For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. (William James) [/life/war/service]
• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. (Derek Jarman) [/right/sex/decision]
• Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. (Samuel Johnson) [give//willpower/respect]
• Democracy without morality is impossible. (Jack Kemp) [democracy/]
• A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality. (John F. Kennedy) [basis/human/]
• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. (Martin Luther King) [/behavior/change]
• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. (Karl Kraus) [/disease/stage/virtue]
• To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. (John Locke) [give/knowledge/]
• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [/religion/find/observation]
• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. (H. L. Mencken) [cleanliness/corruption//find]
• Honor is simply the morality of superior men. (H. L. Mencken) [/men]

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