morality Quotes

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

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:morality faith liberty

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:truth morality

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:religion morality

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:morality respect

“And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor...”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

topic:morality violence

“We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:justice morality

“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“He who judges of morality judges of honour; and he who judges of honour finds his law in opinion.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:morality opinion

“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:education morality

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