Morality Quotes

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.

Henry David Thoreau

What you get free costs too much.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Henry David Thoreau

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

Anonymous

When a blind man carries the lame man both go forward.

Swedish Proverb

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity service self-sacrifice unselfishness and duty.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Robert F. Kennedy

Morality is not respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

H.G.Wells

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Brooks Adams

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

I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.

Thomas Jefferson

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Alice Hawthorne

To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Macaulay

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.

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.

Bertrand Russell

There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just about top of the class.

Mordecai Richler

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Michel de Montaigne

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.

William Butler Yeats

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

Theodore H. White

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.

A.J. Ayer

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.

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.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.

Italian proverb

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Plautus

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

George Bernard Shaw

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

G. C. Lichtenberg

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.

Molière

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Vittorio de Sica

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

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Louis Kronenberger

Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.

Bible

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

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.

Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.

Penelope Trunk (Journalist)

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

Brennan Manning

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

Orison Swett Marden

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

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