Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are good (or right) and those that are bad (or wrong). A moral code is a system of morality (according to a particular philosophy, religion, culture, etc.) and a moral is any one practice or teaching within a moral code. The adjective moral is synonymous with "good" or "right." Immorality is the ...
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- He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat. ,
- However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. ,
- Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. ,
- Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. ,
- Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. ,
- Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. ,
- Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. ,
- Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. ,
- To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. ,
- We become moral when we are unhappy.
Works Written About This Topic:
- The Last Town on Earth ,
- Moral Minds ,
- The Swiss Family Robinson ,
- Jane Eyre ,
- Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists ,
- Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale ,
- The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents ,
- Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice ,
- The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil ,
- Henry James and Modern Moral Life
