100+ Morality Quotes & Sayings about Morality & Ethics on Life
Morality Quotes and Sayings
Food first, then morality. —Bertolt Brecht
Morality is truth in full bloom. —Victor Hugo
Bad company ruins good morals. —I Corinthians 15:33
Compassion is the basis of morality. —Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is the herd–instinct in the individual. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. —Aleister Crowley
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. —Lincoln Steffens
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. —Oscar Wilde
Morality is a private and costly luxury. —Henry B. Adams
Morality begins at the point of a gun. —Mao Zedong
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. —Thomas Hardy
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. —Herbert Spencer
Unless we discover actual truth, morality is up for grabs. —Pamela Christian
It’s easy enough to preach morality on a full belly. —Erwin Sylvanus
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. —William Slim
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. —Nina Bawden
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. —Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God. —Albert Einstein
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. —Oscar Wilde
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children. —Aristotle
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right! —Isaac Asimov
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. —Mahatma Gandhi
The test of morality of a society is what it does with it’s children. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. —Albert Einstein
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. —Graham Greene
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. —Mark Twain
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. —Oscar Wilde
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. —Sigmund Freud
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. —Aldous Huxley
Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger. —Umar
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. —C.S. Lewis
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it. —Henry David Thoreau
Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it. —Unknown
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown. —Elbert Hubbard
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. —Jean Anouilh
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. —Ayn Rand
Morality is a burglar’s tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. —Karl Kraus
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. —Henry Ward Beecher
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. —Martin Luther King Jr.
Even if everyone else is not doing good. I alone will. Even if everyone else is doing wrong, I alone will not. —Unknown
Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell. —Charles Spurgeon
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be ‘given’ in the facts of experience. —C.S. Lewis
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. —Ronald Reagan
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
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. —Bertrand Russell
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. —Henry David Thoreau
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on. —Henry Ward Beecher
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. —Thomas Jefferson