613 Quotes About Morals

WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

But though I might fill the world with dragons I never had the slighest real doubt that heroes ought to fight with dragons. I must stop to challenge many child-lovers for cruelty to children. It is quite false to say that the child dislikes the fable because it is moral. Very often he likes the moral more than the fable. Adults are reading their own weary mockery into a mind still vigorous enough to be entirely serious.

Пикеринг: Послушайте, но неужели у вас совершенно нет чувства морали?Дулиттл(не смущаясь): Оно мне не по карману, хозяин. Будь вы на моем месте, у вас бы его тоже не было.("Пигмалион", Б. Шоу)

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

[...] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

Все, что уцелело от прежней морали, выставили в музее. («Дона Флор и два ее мужа», Жоржи Амаду)