Morality Quotes

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

When we see something different, we judge them either bad or good. But when see something similar we take it as a norm. So does it justify that morality is the epitome good or bad, or vice versa.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure:two things most precious to the life of man.

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

Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home

If there is moral insanity, " he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.

Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.

If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Measures are too often decided, not accord­ing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

[W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start

You must never, at any rate, lend yourself to the wrong, in any form, which you condemn.

Why do people fear hell so much? With so much hatred and division amongst mankind, we are already in it.

The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.

We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality

By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.

People forget their faces when they're busy.

All the social ills thatlaw presumes to correct exist because people are not free tolearn and grow.

Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale.

Always accept good advices from others, they will help you out if you are facing any complications in life

The devil is the most stubborn verisimilitude on earth!

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasn’t a bad person, but she might was well be.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, ‘condemned to be free’. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again. She wasn’t a bad person, but she might was well be.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

Morality is a subject to meddle in the affairs of other persons, guided by our preferences and convenience.

Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.

The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

All lines are gray in the dark.