1,889 Quotes About Morality

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.

Guilt is just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking you’re making moral progress. - Vivian

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.

We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality