1,889 Quotes About Morality

Compassion is the Gateway to Moral Innocence and Avarice’s Defeat

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.

The humankind is far from being human, and much further kind.

That the word pornography comes from the word 'prostitute' is unsurprising. It is a truth universally acknowledged that art, ideas or women that disrupt a stale moral universe must be in want of a comparison to prostitutes.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

Happiness induced morality does not say anything about the content of a person's character. The real mettle of an individual's character is revealed during the times of misery.

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong