#moral

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

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? ↗

— Liam Neeson

#choke #day #hours #jog #know

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#community #international #international community #iran #israel

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#moral #only #phenomena

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#accurately #cannot #conflicts #debates #frame

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #feel #grave #infallible #like