Character Quote by Bertrand Russell

“Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with…

— Bertrand Russell

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

— Dayananda Saraswati

“Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical—feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into…

— Sam Harris

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

— Jo Nesbo

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice…

— Aristotle

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority…

— Susan Sontag

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

— Barbara Branden

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

— Aristippus

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force…

— Barbara Holland

“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the…

— Dada Bhagwan