1,889 Quotes About Morality

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Conventionality is not morality.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.