Morality Quotes
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.Bertrand Russell
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.Herbert Samuel
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
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
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.Friedrich Nietzsche
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.Frank Herbert
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Compassion is the basis of all morality.Arthur Schopenhaue
Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.Charles Krauthamme
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.H. L. Mencken
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.Leon Blum
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.Martin Luther King Jr.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness".
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.Oscar Wilde
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.Archibald Alexande
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.G. K. Chesterton
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.Denis de Rougemont
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.Matthew Arnold
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
Morality is the herd - Instinct in the individual.Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of.B. J. Gupta
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
