To educate a man in mind and
not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Those who often speak highly
of morals are those who often lack them.
Author: Kerry Salesman
The struggle against a purpose
in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - against
its subordination to morality. Art for art's sake means, Let morality go
to the .
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
There are few things more disturbing
than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us strably
superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness
on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable
only in saints.
Author: Pamela Hansford Johnson
There can be no such thing, in
law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Author: Ayn Rand
There is perhaps no phenomenon
which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits
envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Author: Erich Fromm
To love truth for truth's sake
is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot
of all other virtues.
Author: John Locke
Unbounded morality ultimately
becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being
sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
Author: Thomas Sowell
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
We are firmly convinced, and
we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals, our interests
soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
Author: Thomas Henry Jefferson
We may pretend that we're basically
moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Author: Terry Hands
What is ful to thyself do not
do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Author: Hillel
Whoever supermoralizes unmoralizes.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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