Top 1200 Morality In Hamlet Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last chivalrous white knights out there.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

The training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you are going to struggle to keep your voice at first-run perfectness. All that work I did - the pull-ups and pushups - helped keep my body fit. Hamlet, the show, is a cardiovascular workout of about three hours, never mind the mental, soul-crushing element of it.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.