Morality As Proof Quotes & Sayings

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to. — Emily Giffin

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul. — Ayn Rand

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves. — Wendell Phillips

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz

Moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are. — Nawal El Saadawi

The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources. — Jerry A. Coyne

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. — Max Eastman

It's been a slice! — Jon D'Amore

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection ... — Swami Vivekananda

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position. — C.S. Lewis

I love being entertained sure, but the movies that I live for, the movies that I buy and think about and stay in my mind are the movies that entertain me but leave me with something a little uncomfortable to grapple with in the lobby. — Justin Simien

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. — Antoni Tapies

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy. — Wendy Shalit