Quotes about morality

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

Sica, Vittorio De on morality   

"Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality."

Sila-Prabhrita on morality   

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

Socrates on morality   

"Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness."

Sontag, Susan on morality   

"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on morality   

"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice."

Thoreau, Henry David on morality   

"Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so."

Thoreau, Henry David on morality   

"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."

Thoreau, Henry David on morality
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"Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case."

Unknown, Source on morality   

"Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained."

Warshow, Robert on morality   

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Washington, George on morality   

"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."

Weil, Simone on morality   

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

Wells, H.G. on morality   

"Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."

Wilde, Oscar on morality
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"There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion."

Wilde, Oscar on morality   

"The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate."

Young on morality   

"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."

Young, Andrew on morality   

"A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse."

Zimmermann, Johann Georg on morality   

"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."

Einstein, Albert on morality
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"The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile."

Watts, Alan W. on morality