morality Quotes

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by laxity of morals amongst all.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:society morality

“Morality has nothing in common with politics.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:politics morality

“Morality can go to its father the devil.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:evil morality

“Over the past few years I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What is morality? . . . Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

topic:good morality right

“Be not too hasty . . . to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:speech morality

“whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon...”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:society morality

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:morality faith liberty

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