Top 1200 Morality In Hamlet Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven.

Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having a good life oneself. Even if that is true, it does not render morality incredible, but it does raise a question about morality's authority: about what one has most reason to do when one is faced with a conflict of this kind.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows individuals to form a group and to get along with each other, then the challenge is to devise a system that allows different groups to get along - what I call a meta-morality.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

'Hamlet' is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible.

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.