Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marya Mannes

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ...

Judith Butler

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

Henry David Thoreau

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Henry David Thoreau

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Henry David Thoreau

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Henry David Thoreau

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

Francis Ford Coppola

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Jean Philippe Rameau

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Joseph Addison

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Ravi Zacharias

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

Michael Shermer

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

Emmy Rossum

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

James Anthony Froude

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Martin McDonagh

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

John Ruskin

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Lou Gerstner

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

John le Carre

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

Lord Byron

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Henry Ward Beecher

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Madame de Stael

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Jo Nesbo

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Lord Acton

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Shimon Peres

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

Peter Fonda

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.