613 Quotes About Morals

Our time has changed, and it's changed and changed, and it continues to change so fast, that what was proper fifty years ago is not proper today. So the virtues of the past are the vices of today, and many of what were thought to be the vices of the past are the necessities of today. And the moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time, here and now, and that's what it's not doing, and that's why it's ridiculous to go back to the old-time religion.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice.A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm. Artists are not released from that obligation, especially as there are no works of art which do neither harm nor good. If a book, a picture or a melody is accepted by a reader, a spectator or a listener, it means that the reader, spectator or listener has had his emotions stirred; and emotions must be either harmful or useful. They cannot be neutral.

Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Sababu ya kupanda na kuanguka kwa mataifa ni ya kimaadili na kiroho. Hakuna taifa linaloweza kutegemea nguvu na mali zake ili kujiokoa kutokana na madhara ya ukiukwaji wa maadili.

Redefining reality evidences that there is a reality to redefine, it’s just that we’re not pleased with whatever that reality is. And given the unchangeable nature of reality, we’ve yet to admit that any redefinition of it is going to be even less pleasing.

Words are not given depth by the richness of them or the manner in which they are thoughtfully woven together in perfect syntax. Rather, they are given depth when what they speak is truth regardless of how rich the words or perfect the syntax.