Morality Quotes

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and...

Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swa...

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis o...

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is...

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that the...

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the internati...

I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to m...

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason c...

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wol...

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as ...

If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. ...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great mora...

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a l...

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and ne...

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and nee...

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense...

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...

I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none...

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nat...

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous ...

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since...

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surf...

I was profoundly impressed by my contact with these places which are and have always been, the wells...

Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs ...

At the present time it is widely accepted among lawyers that law is higher than morality—law is some...

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to creat...

Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified ...

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken h...

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and ...

We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to t...

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on wh...

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like ...

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives i...

Nature teaches us to devour each other and gives us the example of all the crimes and all the vices ...

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet wi...

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who lov...

It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive...

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th...

By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e...

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the w...

It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn...

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleepin...

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by the...

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive...

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by relig...

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the s...

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude...

Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, e...

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile are...

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided em...

Compassion is the basis of morality.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect...

God, who in the beginning was the creator, appears in the end as revenger and rewarder. Deference to...

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good...

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error o...

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...