Morality Quotes

"Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of."

"Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen."

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."

"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."

"The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

"Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality"

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."

"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street."

"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."

"There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion."

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice."

"Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so."

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers"

"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher"

"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."

"We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach."