We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it it's usually lousy.
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.
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.
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was nothing ever ran quite straight which no doubt was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Beauty is composed of an eternal invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine and a relative element which might be either by turns or all at once period fashion moral passion.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Beauty whether moral or natural is felt more properly than perceived.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened they want a lot of it and when they don't they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
I want to work with kids and help develop them show them the right way the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style bring their competitiveness athleticism and raw ability into the frame.
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude not a policy.
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot that your attitude every day when you come to practice or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale is just as important in the overall picture.
Mankind's true moral test its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life the secret of eloquence and of virtue and of all moral authority.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.