morality quotes

• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. (H. L. Mencken) [/human/right]
• Fear is the mother of morality. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [fear/mother/]
• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. (Friedrich Nietzsche) []
• In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [/god/needs]
• The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. (Ayn Rand) [/teach]
• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. (Salman Rushdie) [reality//human/point]
• We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach. (Bertrand Russell) []
• Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married. (George Bernard Shaw) [/people/being]
• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ( Socrates) [system//sound]
• To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [/acts/imagination]
• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau) [life/]
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau) []
• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. (George Washington) [/religion/experience/]
• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. (Simone Weil) [/tyranny]
• What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Alfred North Whitehead) [/time/majority]
• Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. (Oscar Wilde) [/attitude/people]
• There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. (Oscar Wilde) [thing/]
• Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. (Oscar Wilde) []
• Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. (Oscar Wilde) []
• Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it. (Debbie Harry) [/people]
• I don't know where art is going to go in the future, so I can't hypothesize about whether I would still want to be at the NEA if it got into any issue of morality. (Jane Alexander) [art/future/]
• I think what Roddenberry started and what was continued - and I'm not sure about the series today - was a Judeo-Christian ethic of hard work and morality and honesty: All the good principles we are taught and try to adhere to in some fashion. (William Shatner) [think//honesty/fashion]
• I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. (Peter Fonda) [society/business/]
• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years. (Larry Hagman) [think//more/more]
• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. (Ambrose Bierce) [school//philosophy/school]
• It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. (Millicent Fawcett) [high//character]
• Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. (Ayn Rand) [mind/]
• If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. (Ayn Rand) [/men]
• There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob. (Ayn Rand) [thing/right/]

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