Morality Quotes

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

~ David F. Wells

Peace is found when people stand for morality and rejectculture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peacewill rule the world instead of tyrants.

~ Jeremy Locke

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

~ Rachel Carson

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

~ Raymond Loewy

by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past

~ William Hardy Mcneill

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended to refer to with such words as 'spirituality', 'piety', 'morality', 'ethics' and 'asceticism'. If the manoeuvre succeeds, the conventional concept of religion, that ill-fated bugbear from the prop studios of modern Europe, will emerge from these investigations as the great loser. Certainly intellectual history has always resembled a refuge for malformed concepts - and after the following journey through the various stations, one will not only see through the concept of 'religion' in its failed design, a concept whose crookedness is second only to the hyper-bugbear that is 'culture'.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

~ Criss Jami

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

~ C.s. Lewis

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

~ Thomas Robert Malthus

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

~ Erich Fromm

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

~ Don Cupitt

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

~ Noël Coward

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

~ Dante Alighieri

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

~ H.g. Wells

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

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

~ Charles Dickens

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

~ Mae West

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

~ Philip Pullman

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

~ Oprah Winfrey

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Right is right even if no one is doing it, wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

~ Immanuel Kant

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

~ David Foster Wallace

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

~ Aldous Huxley

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

~ Stephen King

Conventionality is not morality.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another, and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

~ Thomas Paine

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

~ George R.r. Martin

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

~ Sigmund Freud

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

~ Warren Buffett

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

~ Malcolm Forbes

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

~ Oscar Wilde

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

~ Joss Whedon

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? says Peeta. It costs everything you are.

~ Suzanne Collins

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

~ Joseph Conrad