Morality Quotes

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak."

"Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral."

"It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature."

"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."

"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."

"You don't want to examine the basis of your computer's morality any more than you want to see sausage being made."

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality"

"From a morality point of view, I wouldn't even go near, ... But in terms of making an interesting show, I'm sure they'll have to struggle with it."

"Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people"

"Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate."

"As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit."

"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."

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."

"Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong."

"For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion."

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

"Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case."

"The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate."

"At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply."