Morality Quotes

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant)
Compassion is the basis of morality. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. View quote
Joseph Addison
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. View quote
Graham Greene
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. View quote
William Hazlitt
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
He was as great as a man can be without morality. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. (Friedrich Schlegel)
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. View quote
Gough Whitlam
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. View quote
Bertrand Russell
All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football. View quote
Albert Camus
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. (Jane Austen)
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. View quote
Milan Kundera
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche