where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect. . . . To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
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 know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.
Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.