Morality Quotes

"Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own."

"Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own."

Funny thing about black and white - you mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

"Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."

Conscience is often our most defining feature.

It is our innate solidarity, and not some despotism of the sky, which is the source of our morality and our sense of decency.

The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Well! Some people talk of morality, and some religion, but give me a little snug property.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

I have a very strong belief that everyone has a moral obligation to improve society through your passion.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.