Quotes about morality

"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."

Huxley, Aldous on morality
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"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."

Huxley, Aldous on morality   

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

Huxley, Thomas H. on morality   

"For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers."

James, William on morality   

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"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

Jefferson, Thomas on morality
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"There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints."

Johnson, Pamela Hansford on morality   

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

Kant, Immanuel on morality
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"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."

King Jr. Martin Luther on morality
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"The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Kraus, Karl on morality   

"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis."

Kraus, Karl on morality   

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."

Lao-Tzu on morality
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"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on morality   

"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street."

Lawrence, D. H. on morality   

"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on morality   

"There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral."

Lippmann, Walter on morality   

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

Locke, John on morality   

"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on morality   

"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."

Lowell, James Russell on morality   

"Might was the measure of right."

Lucan, F. L. on morality   

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

Macaulay, Thomas B. on morality   

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"Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms."

Mann, Horace on morality   

"Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals."

Mencken, H. L. on morality   

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

Mencken, H. L. on morality   

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."

Mencken, H. L. on morality   

"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?"

Neeson, Liam on morality   

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on morality
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"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

Paul, Jean on morality   

"We become moral when we are unhappy."

Proust, Marcel on morality
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"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Rand, Ayn on morality
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"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

Reagan, Ronald on morality
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"We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach."

Russell, Bertrand on morality   

"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on morality   

"He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat."

Selden, John on morality   

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

Seneca on morality   

"The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it."

Sharpe, Cecil J. on morality   

"Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married."

Shaw, George Bernard on morality   

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."

Shaw, George Bernard on morality   

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"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

Shaw, George Bernard on morality   

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

Shawcross, Lord on morality   

"The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose."

Shuman, Rick on morality