Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

That which is cannot be true.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

The web of domination has become the web of reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Fear is the mother of morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Conventionality is not morality.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

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