1,889 Quotes About Morality

Too high for common selfishness , he couldAt times resign his own for others' good,But not in pity - not because he ought,But in some strange perversity of thought,That swayed him onward with a secred prideTo do what few or none could do beside;And this same impulse would, in tempting time,Mislead his spirit equally to crime;So much he soared beyond, or sank beneath,The men with whom he felt condemned to breathe And longed by good or ill to seperateHimself from all who shared his mortal fate.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

The person who attempts to put himself above the law is the person who seeks to break the laws of morality.

Science can investigate nature and inquire into the empirical world, but it cannot answer moral questions or disprovefree will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.

Why am I doing this? Why do I want to know the names and functions of all the beautiful structures I've spent my years violating? Because I don't deserve to keep them anonymous. I want the pain of knowing them, and by extension myself: who and what I really am. Maybe with that scalpel, red hot and sterilized in tears, I can begin to carve out the rot inside me.

Theocracy is the destruction of human freedom in the name of God. Libertinism is the destruction of moral norms in the name of liberty. Neither will do.

Commandments belong to the very lowest class of morality.

Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you

Success has nothing to do with morality.