“It's always easier to lecture other people about morality when you've never had to answer for anything yourself.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others. — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'd rather tell you an unpleasant truth that would make you hate me than tell you a lie that would make you… — Darl Candia Copy Share Image
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.” — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and… — Jewel Copy Share Image
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“You can decide to forgo any ethical deliberations and simply embrace the moral beliefs and norms you inherited from your family and… — Lewis Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And what does God ask of you?” “To fly without wings. To do what seems impossible. To cling to our loves through… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.” — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not about the way things are, it's about the way they ought to be.” — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stopping at nothing and doing what's in your heart that you know is right, means determination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Letting go something, that is never meant to be there anymore is a love for life…but holding on to it is, the… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“Morality applies to your intent and the greater context of the situation. Seeking” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
