Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 945 authors

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. — Prince
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The… — Tadeusz Borowski
Manâ€”every manâ€”is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to… — Ayn Rand
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work. — Steven Levitt
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a… — Arthur C. Clarke
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One… — Carl Sagan
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.… — Wendell Berry
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more… — Mikhail Bakunin
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity… — Max Stirner
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which… — Ayn Rand
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only… — Albert Einstein
Morality is truth in full bloom. — Victor Hugo
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. — W. Somerset Maugham
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from… — Ayn Rand
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held… — Bertrand Russell
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naÃ¯vetÃ©. — Emmanuel Levinas

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