#moral

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

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#ambiguous #end #i #i always #morally

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love. ↗

— Ice Cube

#gone #instant #love #moral #people

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#belong #binding #christian #christian tradition #citizens

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#common #every #fall #ideals #inevitably

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#matters #moral #moral issues #out #taste

You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#beings #doing #fighting #human #human beings

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#any #completely #could #different #different perspectives

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#buried #consists #deeply #fundamental #lies