417 quotes found
“I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.”
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and...”
“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.”
“morality... comes at a price.”
“Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.”
“Oh no! replies Monsieur Tuvache indignantly. Were not murderers, you know. You have to understand thats prohibited. We supply what is needed but people do the deed themselves. Its their affair. We ...”
“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”
“The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless m...”
“It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.”
“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”
“I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The a...”
“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.”
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
“How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morali...”
“A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.”
