The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effectöit is too exciting.

-Aristotle
c.330  BC  Politics.

Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed 'with his eye on the object', Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes 'with his eye onthe object', whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture1.

  Sentences which simply express moral judgements do not say anything. Theyare pure expressions of feeling and as such donot come under the categoryof truth and falsehood.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

Notale everhappened intheway wetell it.Butthemoral is always correct.

-Barthelme, Donald
  The Dead Father, ch.6.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'Corn Law Rhymes'.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

-Dodgson
  The Duchess.  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.

The Victorians expected every building, like every painting, to tell a story, and preferably to point to a moral as well. 199

-Casson, Sir Hugh Maxwell
  An Introduction to Victorian  Architecture.

There isno suchthing as a moral dress† It's people who are moral or immoral.

-Churchill,Jeanette ne¤  e Jeanette Jerome
  'That Moral Dress', in the Daily Chronicle,16 Feb.

Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.

-Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra
Under Western Eyes, prologue.

I don't have a moral plan. I'm a Canadian.

-Cronenberg, David
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1988).

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

-Dewey,John
  Reconstruction in Philosophy.

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art† The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

-Dewey,John
  Art as Experience.

His moral character†was full of promise, but of no performance.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Of Mr Pecksniff. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.5.

Let us be moral.Let us contemplate existence.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Mr Pecksniff. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.9.

That it is at least as difficult to staya moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignityand rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed inthe most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmlyestablished by experience as that we human creatures breathe an atmosphere.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Little Dorrit, bk.2, ch.13.

The economic services that it can render are picayune compared to the moral effect that it produces, and its true function is to create in two or more persons a feeling of solidarity.

-Durkheim, EŁ  mile
  Of labour. The Division of Labor in Society (translated by George Simpson,1933).

All books are the Book of Job, high moral tests and tasks set in fairy tales, landmined and unforgiving as golf greens, as steeplechase and gameboard and obstacle course. 310

-Elkin, Stanley Lawrence
  'The Future of the Novel', in the NewYork Times,17 Feb.

Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

A woman can look both moral and excitingöif she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

-Ferber, Edna
  In Reader's Digest, Dec.

Humanbeings, intheirgenerous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of a lower moral quality than their own.

-Hardy,Thomas
  The Return of the Native, bk.6, ch.1.