Morality Quotes

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

Men, Force, Attracts

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

God, Importance, Highest

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

Human, Personal, Obstacles

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Experience, Reason

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

Money, Nations, Principle

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

Emotional, True, Nothing

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Society, Important

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

Attitude, Simply, Dislike

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Substance, Basis

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Reason, Religious, Conflict

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, Hearts, Depends

Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Simply, Aim

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

Life, Good, Yourself

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu

Love, Great, Knowledge

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, Reality, Point

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

End, Step, Whose

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
George Bernard Shaw

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

Men, Survive, Altruism

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Faith, Liberty, Cannot

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Gun, Force

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

Business, Successful, Remember

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

Yourself, Live, Enjoy

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken

Time, Immorality

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand

Law, Matter, Rights

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Honor, Simply

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Line, Drawing

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken

Human, Wrong, Act

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