Morality Quotes - page 2

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Force always attracts men of low morality. View quote
Albert Einstein
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. View quote
William Winwood Reade
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. View quote
Michael Shermer
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. View quote
Michael Shermer
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. View quote
Ayn Rand
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. View quote
Freda Adler
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. (Aleister Crowley)
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. View quote
Joseph Addison
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. View quote
Donald Judd
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Morality is the weakness of the brain. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. (Toni Morrison)
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. View quote
Albert Einstein
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. View quote
Osamu Dazai
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle. View quote
Barry McGuire
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. View quote
Dee Hock