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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.
If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.
The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.
From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.