#morality

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#doing #every #found #freedom #grow

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#enjoy #live #morality #purpose #suffer

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

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

— Robert Reich

#better #better job #crisis #doing #instead

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. ↗

— Jane Rule

#integrity #morality #our #rather #test

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#critical #form #how #issues #morality

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. ↗

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

#claim #constant #feminine #ground #implicit

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#duty #few #health #morality #physical

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#immorality #life #lived #make #man