1,889 Quotes About Morality

The whole mechanism of guilt as a deterrent to right action is just as much a linguistic fault.

In what ways, if any, does talent set you apart? Does it exempt you from the duties and responsibilities expected of others? Or does it load you up with even more duties and responsibilities, but of a different kind?

When we do not know the wrongs we do, we cannot be judged. When we do not understand the wrong we do, we cannot be judged. When we know what we have done and try it again, there is a right that we be judged.

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody's throat.

One of the persistant delusions of mankind is that some sections of the human race are morally better or worse than others. This belief has many different forms, none of which has any rational basis.

When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something.

But beliefs are neither moral nor immoral. They may be accurate or inaccurate, founded or unfounded, but they acquire moral significance only when they are shaped to serve some ulterior purpose that is either moral or immoral.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals

If a book of moral rules rating could be written, then, first rule should be "Deal with yourself and your own work