Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 952 authors

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is,… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to… — Walter E. Williams
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. — Thomas Jefferson
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. — H. L. Mencken
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. — H. L. Mencken
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
No moral system can rest solely on authority. — A.J. Ayer
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the… — James Anthony Froude
"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any… — John Ruskin
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. — Jonathan Haidt
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. — Robert Kennedy
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand… — Henry Ward Beecher
Custom alone regulates morals. — Anatole France
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them. — Henry Ward Beecher
I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true.... If you do something for a religious… — Lisa Randall
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. — Emile Durkheim
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices… — Joel Stein
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. — Thomas Jefferson
Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us… — Dean Koontz
Morality is but the vestibule of religion. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Who Wrote These Morality Quotes

952 authors contributed a total of 1,733 Morality Quotes, led by these top contributors: