Morality Quotes

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Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. — Theodore Dreiser
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor
Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity. — Albert Einstein
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. — Walter Lippmann
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd… — Albert Camus
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a… — Aldous Huxley
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows… — Henry Ward Beecher
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. — Bertrand Russell
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is… — H. L. Mencken
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. — Mark Twain
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. — Oscar Wilde
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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