Morality Quotes

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

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

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

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

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

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

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

It's a sin only if it harms you

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Morality established from Science is the key to understanding Coexistence.Science based on Morality is the reason we have prejudice for things we don't understand.

If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity.

The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

Follow your own morality but never forget to be kind. Kindness is always better than morality.

Morality without kindness is the most dangerous weapon.

Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

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

The only crime is pride.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Ethics is a dream.

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.