morality Quotes

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:writing morality

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:evil morality

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:religion evil morality

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:books morality

“It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Nudity and sex are the most commonplace things in the world. Yet people often act as if they were things that existed only on Mars.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.”

― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

topic:ignorance morality

“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

topic:good justice morality

“the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:reason darkness morality

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