Quotes by Morality Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. Edmund Burke moralitylibertydoe Morality is but the vestibule of religion. Edwin Hubbel Chapin morality Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown Elbert Hubbard immoralitymorality Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy. Ella Leya empathymoralityknows it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. Ellen Glasgow originalitywisermorality There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make. Elliot S. Maggin moralitydistinctiontwo Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. Emile Durkheim moralitysocialmen Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. Emile Durkheim cheerfulmoralityfound Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté. Emmanuel Levinas vetsmoralityphilosophy Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. Emmeline Pankhurst moralityacceptingmen I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality. Emmy Rossum grey-areasgreymorality Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. Eric Alterman moralitytechniqueuse We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. Erica Jong monogamycynicalmorality A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. Erica Jong moralitylastsfirsts The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression. Esther Perel ethicsmoralitysometimes they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. Fanny Fern dishonestymoralitymean Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. Fidel Castro ethicspovertymorality Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. Frances Power Cobbe moralityatheistmay Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. Frances Wright moralityprocessaction I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality. Francis Ford Coppola apocalypsemoralityprivacy«4567891011121314»
