Morality Quotes

52 quotations about Morality
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater · Morality
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence · Morality
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
Walter Lippmann · Morality
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke · Morality
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
James Russell Lowell · Morality
Might was the measure of right.
F. L. Lucan · Morality
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay · Morality
Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
H. L. Mencken · Morality
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Morality
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
Jean Paul · Morality
We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust · Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand · Morality
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan · Morality
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
George Bernard Shaw · Morality
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw · Morality
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw · Morality
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
Lord Shawcross · Morality
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
Rick Shuman · Morality
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica · Morality
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Henry David Thoreau · Morality
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Henry David Thoreau · Morality
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. Wells · Morality
Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde · Morality
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Oscar Wilde · Morality
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
Young · Morality

Authors on Morality

Henry Brooks Adams Jean Anouilh Isaac Asimov Tallulah Bankhead Aneurin Bevan Lord Byron Charles Caleb Colton Noel Coward Aleister Crowley Benjamin Disraeli William J. Durant Ralph Waldo Emerson Feoude Edna Ferber Sigmund Freud James A. Froude Oliver Goldsmith Graham Greene Roy Hattersley William Hazlitt