1,889 Quotes About Morality

The oligarchs who ran the country – and the world – had no principals, no morals, and no Code of Honor. Their indentured servants, the politicians, pretended to have them, but their skills were, just like those of the prostitute who tells her john he just gave her the best orgasm, to appear to have a moral purpose just beyond their self-enrichment. That much was enough to get them through the next election.

If you can’t hear your conscience, turn up the volume.

Don't let your impostors be superior, for their deceitfulness will be buried in a bottomless ocean that is made with fire.

Selective morality is sinful.

People, though, and living things ... their sense of self is complicated. Mutable. It changes ... they think of themselves as soldiers, as kings, as wives and husbands and children ... People can convince themselves to be anything...

We have life, but this does not mean we are better people. In fact, we must struggle even more than mortals do to remain good. How easy it is for goodness to have no meaning when punishment, retribution- or hell- have no meaning. It makes as much sense for Eleanor to choose thrill-seeking or Samuel to choose murder as it does for you and me to choose love and family.

Be not whom you're not.

Amorality is the highest form of morality.

Knowing the difference between right and wrong is not some religious ideal; it is our moral obligation.