#morality

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#beings #conscious #consciousness #morality #really

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#only #ordinary #ordinary people #people

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #contrary #finer #immorality #morality

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#itself #morality #primary #safety #value

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#behavior #best #certainly #ethics #gravitate

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#chaos #create #enemy #individual #individual members

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. ↗

— Jane Rule

#conserving #invented #language #learned #like

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#air #begins #constructs #fiction #givens