Morality Quotes And Sayings

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“Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.”
– Aldous Huxley

“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong.”
– H.L Mencken

“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 reason, you do it because you’ll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That’s not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.”
– 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

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”
– Karl Kraus

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
– Charlotte Bronte

“The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality — to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting — but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued — if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing — are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.”
– Adam Phillips

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”
– Ayn Rand

“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 may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.”
– 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

“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”
– Aleister Crowley

“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 is so perplexing that we can’t make a choice, or won’t, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.”
– Dean Koontz

“A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.”
– Dave Galanter

“Without freedom there can be no morality.”
– Carl Jung

“There is nothing … quite like the moral absolutism of the young. It’s easy, as a child, to believe in good and evil, in light and dark.”
– Cassandra Clare

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Morality is but the vestibule of religion.”
– E.H. Chapin

“Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”
– Austin O’Malley

“Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
– William Hazlitt

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!”
– Isaac Asimov

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
– Elizabeth Hardwick

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
– Oscar Wilde

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.”
– Bertrand Russell

“An ethical person ought to do more than he’s required to do and less than he’s allowed to do”
– unknown

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