Morality Quotes

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered go...

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef...

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, ...

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of it...

"Tut tut child " said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...

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

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves...

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

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

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

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to...

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your rul...

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or sa...

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the ...

Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of ...

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inaliena...

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

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

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one rea...

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignor...

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences ...

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it in...

I said it was a brutal thing."No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a m...

I said it was a brutal thing."No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a m...

Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round ...

There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we se...

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of pe...

Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no a...

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It’s not i...

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now thr...

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation wit...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many o...

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even whe...

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and ...

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign o...

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stor...

A steady recognition that the evils which prevent the fullness of moral development are precisely th...

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

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does ...

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of it...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n...

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...

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

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

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

The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker ...

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility ...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had t...

What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decide...

Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for you...

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was...

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou...

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism.

... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is ri...

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' ...

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betr...

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly m...

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

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and mora...

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

I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by livin...

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or n...

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effect...

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the rea...

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

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one do...

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

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

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

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, no...

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.