best quotations about
Morality |
and Ethics
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Quotations
 | Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 28 likes |
 | Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 20 likes |
 | Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 18 likes |
 | The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 16 likes |
 | A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 15 likes |
 | The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 12 likes |
| Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 9 likes |
 | Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 9 likes |
 | The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 7 likes |
 | Grub first, then ethics. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 6 likes |
 | Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 5 likes |
 | An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | The death of dogma is the birth of morality. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton, 1834-1902, English historian 5 likes |
 | Principles are only good when they generate acts. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 4 likes |
 | Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books. — Robert Oxton Bolt, 1924-1955, British playwright 4 likes |
 | Compassion is the basis of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
| The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | Above all, fear the judgment of those who judge you in the name of Him who said: “Judge not, that ye be not judged”. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 4 likes |
 | Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 4 likes |
 | Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 4 likes |
| The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 3 likes |
 | Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 3 likes |
 | Take and give pleasures without harming yourself or others. That, I think, is the whole meaning of morality. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 3 likes |
 | Morality is herd instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
| Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 2 likes |
| Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
| You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | Is it not more moral, the free union of two lovers who love each other, than the legitimate union of two beings without love? — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 2 likes |
 | 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. |
 | What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. |
 | Morality is what is left of fear when you forget it. |
 | Never presume yours is a better morality. |
| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. |
 | There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
| It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
| A man without principles is usually without character. Because if he had a good character, he would feel the need to create principles as well. |
 | It is through death that morality entered life. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
 | The increasing disintegration of the person can be measured by comparing the expression “amorous adventure,” which was in style in the 18th century, with the expression “sexual experience,” which is used in the 20th century. |
 | People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. |
Latin Quotes
 | O, the times! O, the morals! O tempora! Ο mores! — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 38 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? — Anonymous 5 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Refrain from evil not out of fear, but because it is right. Μη δια φόβον, αλλά δια το δέον απέχεσθε αμαρτημάτων. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 28 likes |
 | Of moral states to be avoided there are three kinds: malice, incontinence, bestiality. Των περί τα ήθη φευκτών τρία εστίν είδη: κακία, ακρασία, θηριότης. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
