Morality Quotes

Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.

Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.

Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you.

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.

They want a hero to worship, and a villain to condemn. They have found their villain today, and they would cherish it for as long as they can, till another one comes along.

If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint?

Greatness should have no victimsGreatness should need no victims.

Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.

Master morality is a "yea-saying" attitude where "good" and "bad" are equivalent to "noble" and "despicable" respectively.

[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.

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

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

It's not respectable, ' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.

Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

I know that it is dangerous. I also know that it is right.

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

If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.

Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning.

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.

What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.

Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

Doing the right thing is the surest path to public condemnation.

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

Morality says it all.Petra Hermans

no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful.

Like other corrupt people, he would never realize that his punishment was in missing out on what he didn’t know he could have.

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Leave it to the Alderaanians to slap a cheery end on a nice little grisly children’s morality tale.

Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them.

The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.

It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of all.

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves

Always polish the dirt for a refreshing start and seek out to build new mental structures that can help you to become rejuvenated.

Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference.

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.

Good, then, is indefinable....

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.