1,889 Quotes About Morality

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

While boys are taught that the things that make them men--good men--are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs. Literally.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.