#morality

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#end #garden #gate #hyena #morality

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #changes #didactic #essential #function

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. ↗

— John Locke

#cases #determine #human #human society #love

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#fits #know #morality #periodical #public

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. ↗

— James Madison

#church #devotion #increased #industry #manifestly

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anybody #black #cares #i #money

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. ↗

— George Pataki

#engaging #equation #everyone #freedom #israel

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#beings #conscious #consciousness #morality #really

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#beings #brain #fated #force #happiness