Conventional Morality Quotes

#1. I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

Chogyam Trungpa

#3. So things were coming together nicely for me to embark on a full-fledged depression. One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression.

Mindy Kaling

#4. We're all a little wild, and we're all a little something.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#5. I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

Hanna Rosin

#6. People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.

Christopher Brookmyre

#7. It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Karl Popper

#8. Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

Russell Hoban

#9. Let's just say, there's not much of a moon out tonight," Nose continued anyway, "but if Yale joined us, there would be.

Ripley Patton

#10. Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Michael Drayton

#11. The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Myrtle Reed

#12. We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

Katha Pollitt

#13. We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

Rachel Caine

#14. The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.

Jonathan Glover

#15. Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

Norman MacCaig

#16. The greatest risk in life is not to take a risk.

Sunday Adelaja