Morality Quotes - Page 2

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.