Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy
What is ful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Hillel
It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Thomas Henry Huxley
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals, our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
Thomas Henry Jefferson
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Mignon McLaughlin
We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Terry Hands
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
Michel de Montaigne
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Schopenhauer
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
Martin H. Fischer
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. Llewelyn Powys
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
Milan Kundera
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Goethe
It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Henry Louis Mencken
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison
Whoever supermoralizes unmoralizes.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
As for morality, well that’s all tied up with the question of consciousness.
Roger Penrose
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Roger Penrose
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
Bill Condon
Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Judith Martin
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
Garrett Hardin
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
Nikita Khrushchev