Morality Quotes

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.