Morality Quotes

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

~ C.s. Lewis

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good, a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

~ C.s. Lewis

I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do. For myself, as no doubt for most of my friends, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. The supporters of this system claimed that it embodied the meaning - the Christian meaning, they insisted - of the world. There was one admirably simple method of confuting these people and justifying ourselves in our erotic revolt: we would deny that the world had any meaning whatever.

~ Aldous Huxley

Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

~ J.adam Snyder

...the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others.

~ Richard C. Carrier

The only consistent response for a relativist is, Pushing morality is wrong for me, but that's just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with you. Please ignore me.

~ Gregory Koukl

God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

~ Criss Jami

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

~ Oscar Wilde

The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.

~ Suzy Kassem

That faceless, nameless and ruthless demon you pretend to fight, is nothing but the bastard in your head.

~ Mamur Mustapha

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.

~ Dave Anderson

Eradication represents a complete change of philosophy and a recognition of the equal rights of all citizens to protection from infection, no matter where they live. Eradication, by its very nature, is public health with a conscience. The public health control officer can sleep tranquilly, salving his conscience with the thought that most of his responsibility has been discharged – that he did not have enough money to do any more. The eradicator knows that his success is not measured by what has been accomplished but, rather, is the extent of his failure indicated by what remains to be done. He must stamp out the last embers of infection in his jurisdiction. His slogan must be: ANY IS TOO MANY.

~ Fred Lowe Soper

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

~ Peter Shaffer

Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.

~ Iris Murdoch

I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of the pictures I made. ... Oscar Wilde, when attacked in a similar ad hominem way, insisted that it is senseless to speak of morality when discussing art, asserting that the hypocritical, prudish, and philistine English public, when unable to find the art in a work of art, instead looked for the main in it.

~ Sally Mann

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

~ George Eliot

A narcissist with power will attempt to prove in the world only what is already in his head. He can't 'see' otherwise. For him, the 'outside world' is not beyond him and does not question or challenge him and his ideas. He is the world. Others will assent to his distorted worldview, because he is powerful, not because he is believable. If he possesses any reflection, that will be exactly what will gnaw at the narcissist with power most of all: his 'truths' are inauthentic, and he is a human being without integrity. The very narcissism and power he possesses prevent him from an ongoing relationship with the truth, which begins with self-humility and the curiosity this can create in a person.

~ Sergio Troncoso

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.

~ Criss Jami

Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the basement of this world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

First live to be ‘sincere’ then ‘morality’ will follow.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

~ C.g. Jung

Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.

~ Criss Jami

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

~ J. Budziszewski

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

~ Criss Jami

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

~ Criss Jami

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

~ Criss Jami

When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

History reveals there is no moral high ground, there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others.

~ Steve Maraboli

Physical development was alleged to assist spiritual and intellectual development, while also helping safeguard boys from the 'solitary and sexual sin' of masturbation.

~ Martin Crotty

The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.

~ J.s.b. Morse

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

~ Immanuel Kant

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

~ Stanisław Lem

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche