1,889 Quotes About Morality

Much of morality is peculiar to mortality.

To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.

Remember, all I am trying to establish for the moment is that we do not, as a matter of fact, derive our morals from scripture. Or, if we do, we pick and choose among the scriptures for the nice bits and reject the nasty. But then we must have some independent criterion for deciding which are the moral bits: a criterion which, wherever it comes from, cannot come from scripture itself and is presumably available to all of us whether we are religious or not.

If you’re drowning and a murderer throws you a line, you can’t wait for someone more agreeable to come along.

The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves.Never mind your happiness; do your duty."Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.

Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous.

Those who deny the reality of evil do so because it proves the reality of good and the reality of good proves an objective morality

God could sort us out into the sinner and the saved. Until we got there, it seemed to him that we were better off just being good neighbors and reserving our moral judgments for ourselves.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference).