Morality Quotes

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

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

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.

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

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Morality negates life.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.