Morality Quotes
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.Alex Carey
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.Denis de Rougemont
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.Leon Blum
A man does what he must - In spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - And that is the basis of all human morality.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
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, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness".
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
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.Matthew Arnold
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.Herbert Samuel
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.Alfred North Whitehead
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.Frank Herbert
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.Oscar Wilde
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
Morality is the herd - Instinct in the individual.Friedrich Nietzsche
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.Martin Luther King Jr.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.Georges Bataille
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
Morality is the weakness of the mind.Arthur Rimbaud
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.Archibald Alexande
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
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
Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.Charles Krauthamme
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.H. L. Mencken
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
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
