Morality Quotes

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

~ Håkan Nesser

The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits that spirituality ostensibly provides to its adherents, can be found equally in the worldview of philosophy and ethics, communities of other kinds, and so on. It's a myth that the only morality, hope, purpose and comfort to be found, resides only in the supernatural.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves, it is the handiwork of terror.

~ Harold Edmund Stearns

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

~ Brennan Manning

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

~ Sinclair Lewis

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

~ John Hersey

...Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

~ Nikolas Schreck

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

~ Michelle Templet

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

~ Frank Tallis

That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved.

~ Ayn Rand

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

~ Michelle Templet

Do right simply because it is right.

~ Alex Treacher

Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.

~ Penelope Trunk (Journalist)

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.

~ William Blake

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

~ G. C. Lichtenberg

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

~ Mark Twain

It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.

~ Molière

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

~ Vittorio De Sica

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

~ H. L. Mencken

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

~ Thomas Huxley

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

~ Louis Kronenberger

Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.

~ Bible

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

~ John Donne

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.

~ Ogden Nash

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

~ Lord Shawcross

To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

~ Barbara Ward

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.

~ Thomas Huxley

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

~ Bertrand Russell

There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just about top of the class.

~ Mordecai Richler

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

~ Albert Schweitzer

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

~ Michel De Montaigne

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

~ Adlai Stevenson

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.

~ William Butler Yeats

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

~ Theodore H. White

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

No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.

~ A. J. Ayer

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

~ Jacques Barzun

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.

~ William Blake