Morality Quotes

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do ...

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed...

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed...

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we g...

Ah. Well, it stands for Freedom From Morality. We don't think healthy amorality happens naturally." ...

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

True art is by nature moral. We recognize true art by its careful, thoroughly honest search for and ...

...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ...

A dragon is a confusion at the heart of things, a law unto himself. He embraces good, evil, and indi...

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testam...

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes ...

It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normal—especially if you are someone who is n...

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and cl...

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understan...

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th...

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he...

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest...

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, lab...

It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in...

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities we...

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou...

Take away all the moral beauty and sweetness in the Word, and the Bible is left wholly a dead letter...

... It happened very fast. And now that he's dead he can't remember pain. It's as if he'd never exis...

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order ...

Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like...

I quickly realized that there are two main kinds of diversity—demographic and moral. ... Once you ma...

Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a goo...

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other mat...

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is ...

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and...

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...

All religions are true but none are literal.

Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never...

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul th...

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schoo...

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have reject...

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with th...

Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For...

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more...

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parent...

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion...

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, im...

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, moral...

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou...

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald Ci...

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapi...

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it...

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered go...

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef...

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, ...

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of it...

"Tut tut child " said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much...

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves...

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to...

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your rul...

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or sa...

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the ...

Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of ...

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inaliena...

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible...

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one rea...

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignor...

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences ...

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it in...