Morality Quotes

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.

~ Robert Frost

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.

~ James Baldwin

Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.

~ Italian Proverb

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

~ Plautus

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

~ Henry David Thoreau

What you get free costs too much.

~ Jean Anouilh

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

~ Anonymous

When a blind man carries the lame man both go forward.

~ Swedish Proverb

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity service self-sacrifice unselfishness and duty.

~ Willard Gaylen

If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

~ Robert F. Kennedy

Morality is not respectability.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

~ H. G. Wells

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

~ Peter Lord

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

~ Oscar Wilde

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

~ Penn Jillette

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

~ Frank Herbert

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

~ Maria Montessori

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

~ Jean Piaget

Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does.

~ Elvis Mitchell

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

~ Aleister Crowley

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

~ Immanuel Kant

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

~ Annie Besant

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

~ Michael Graves

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

~ George Washington

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

~ Albert Einstein

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

~ Sam Harris

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

~ George W. Romney

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

~ Mark Hopkins

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

~ Gloria Estefan

Force always attracts men of low morality.

~ Albert Einstein

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

~ Ben Bernanke

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

~ Milan Kundera