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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
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.
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
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.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.