Morality Quotes

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.