The higher the building the lower the morals.
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.
Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.
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.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.