Morality Quotes

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."
-Voltaire

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
-Oscar Wilde

"Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses."
-Scott Adams

"The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals."
-Sallust

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is 'What do you like?' Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."
-John Ruskin

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
-G. K. Chesterton

"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
-Bertrand Russell

"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."
-Norma Shearer

"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary."
-Lincoln Steffens

"The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods."
-Irving Kristol

"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."
-Bertrand Russell

"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity."
-James A. Forude

"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
-Isaac Asimov

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends."
-Albert Bandura

"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore."
-Alex Carey

"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
-Denis Diderot

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
-Oscar Wilde

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike."
-Oscar Wilde

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
-Herbert Spencer