Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest. . . That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest. . . then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
How can one be well. . . when one suffers morally?
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment. ' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill.
