Morality
Morality here isn’t about rigid rules or distant judgments—it’s the quiet tension between what feels right and what’s easy, the moments when principle meets the weight of human frailty. These words wrestle with the space where conscience lives, whether as a guiding light or a stubborn voice in the noise.
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“Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.”
Steve Coogan“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.”
Bryant McGill“In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.”
David F. Wells“Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.”
Sylvester Stallone“Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.”
Sarah Addison Allen“Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.”
Vineet Raj Kapoor“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
Aldous Huxley“To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.”
Gary Steiner“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
Mahatma Gandhi“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.”
Shane Douglas“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest man will live very comfortably. Pay attention to the windows of the Four Seasons next time you stroll by their dining room. You will find thugs and hustlers of every creed living like true kings and queens.”
Suzy Kassem“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II“Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.”
Novalis“Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.”
Caitlín R. Kiernan“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.”
Criss Jami“To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.”
Baron d'Holbach“Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.”
Marty Rubin“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”
Alexander Pope“Is the any model like morality?”
Lailah Gifty Akita“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.”
Oscar Wilde