#morality

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

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

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

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. ↗

— George Pataki

#engaging #equation #everyone #freedom #israel

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#care #comprehensive #coverage #easier #equal

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ends #force #gun #mind #morality

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#any #civilization #men #morality #reject

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#beings #brain #fated #force #happiness

Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#morality #weakness