morality Quotes

“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family and the school.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power

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“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in a nation's life.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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