Morality Quotes

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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw. — George Bernard Shaw
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality,… — Frances Wright
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or… — Madame de Stael
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners… — Madame de Stael
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. — C.S. Lewis
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. — James Anthony Froude
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian… — F. H. Bradley
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of… — C.S. Lewis
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the… — Steve Coogan
When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who… — Steve Coogan

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