Quotations
Quotes:
There is no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretation of phenomena
View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
View quotes by Galbraith
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
View quotes by Susan Sontag
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
View quotes by Ayn Rand
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
View quotes by John Gardner
The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.
View quotes by David Clennon
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
View quotes by John Strachan
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
View quotes by Henry Mencken
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
View quotes by Ernest Hemingway
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of libery (Essays, Moral, Political and Literary)
View quotes by David Hume
Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Essays, Moral, Political and Literary)
View quotes by David Hume
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo
View quotes by H G Wells
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The moral of film-making in Britain is that you will be f***ed by the weather.
View quotes by Hugh Grant
The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane. (Les Faux Monnayeurs)
View quotes by André Gide
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
View quotes by Marcel Proust
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Aquinas
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
View quotes by A J Ayer
The difference between a moral man and a man of honour is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
View quotes by Adam Smith
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