Morality Quotes

"Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married."

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

"The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them."

"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."

"Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to."

"Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."

"To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

"Morality is moral only when it is voluntary."

"I've heard some debates about the morality of this. To me, it seems like a good idea to put together people from different countries with the same objective. If it could be done outside the sports field, it would be considered fantastic."

"There's something nice about being able to leave your sense of morality at the door and just be cruel to people all day long."

"I don't view this as an issue of morality."

"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."

"You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law."

"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble."

"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue."

"Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle"

"Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!"

"It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong."