Morality Quotes

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You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island… — Ayn Rand
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they… — Alfred North Whitehead
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to… — Aldous Huxley
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his… — Albert Einstein
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .… — John Quincy Adams
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second… — John Quincy Adams
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to… — William Penn
Without freedom there can be no morality. — Carl Jung
[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am… — Noah Webster
[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I… — Gouverneur Morris

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