4 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Morality

Jean Cocteau quotes on morality

2. A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

45. We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

76. Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.

87. Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative. This personal morality may appear to be immorality itself in the eyes of those who lie to themselves, or who live a life of confusion, in such a manner that, for them, a lie becomes the truth, and our truth becomes a lie...