1,889 Quotes About Morality

The deterioration of any language is the decay of any moral society where in the language resides. If people don’t know how to communicate or are limited within their own language, then they will act merely on impulse. People’s shortcuts are ultimately their undoing.

That which is best for an individual's interest may not be best for the common good.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

Convenience trumps all moralities

What I admire about Austen (among hundreds of other commendable qualities) is her traditional rather than modern conception of morality. She sees it, as did Aristotle, Aquinas, and Marx, as a matter of public conduct, not as the inner light, interior emotions, what you happen to be feeling, what you find aesthetically alluring, and the like. She’s an extremely tough-minded ethical realist in an increasingly corrupt, sentimentalist culture.

How interesting... humans will drag others down in order to get what they want even in death.

When you've lost everything,' he says, 'sometimes you don't see anything wrong with taking a little back.

Morality is an invention of the powerful to impose their will on the subordinates with ease and nearly as much slyness.

Morality is a man-made concept. The cosmos has no notion of values, ethics, or good deeds. Comets follow no path of righteousness.