Morality Quotes
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
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
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.Charles Krauthamme
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of.B. J. Gupta
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
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
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
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
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
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
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
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.Martin Luther King Jr.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.Oscar Wilde
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
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
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
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.Matthew Arnold
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
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
Morality is the weakness of the mind.Arthur Rimbaud
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.G. K. Chesterton
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.H. L. Mencken
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
Compassion is the basis of all morality.Arthur Schopenhaue
