To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
Modern morality is all about perception.
In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.
He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion. " "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell. "
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
Moral certainty is intellectual immorality
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.