Top 1200 Morality In Hamlet Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?