#morals

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#imagination #legislature #morals #sex #speak

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#capt #differ #i #lewis #manners

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white. ↗

— Matt Robinson

#also #ambiguity #because #black #black or white

We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents ↗

— Hal Herzog

#morals #philosophy #equality

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cease #environment #exercise #faith #his

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. ↗

— Mahatma Ghandi

#humankind #inspiration #morals #protection #inspirational

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles! ↗

— Robert Bolt

#morals #principles #values #life

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#ethics #good-and-evil #life #morals #war

Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#promiscuity #sex #experience