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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
-Henry Adams
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Alighieri
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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
-Jean Anouilh
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
-Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
-Aristotle
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Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
-Antonin Artaud
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-Isaac Asimov
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
-Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
-Georges Bataille
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Life of Thoughts, 1858
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
-Aneurin Bevan
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Bad company ruins good morals.
-Bible
1 Corinthians 15:33
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There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.
-Allan Bloom
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Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
-Robert Bolt
A Man For All Seasons, 1960
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
-Samuel Butler
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
-Lewis Carroll
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
-Angela Carter
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.
-William Ellery Channing
The Moral Argument Against Calvinism,(1809) from The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. (Boston:American Unitarian Association, 1898), quoted in William Ellery Channing Speaks, Mark Harris, ed.(Boston:UUA, 1985), p. 5.
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What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?
-Harrison Christian
1994 'Morality Rules'
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I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.
-Robert Coles
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Books about Morals
