Famous Quotes about Morality (98 Quotations)

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

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

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

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

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

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art — like physical beauty in a person — is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

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.

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

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

We moralize among ruins.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.

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.

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.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.