1,889 Quotes About Morality

We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.

History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others.