Morality Quotes

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.

Alex Carey

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Archibald Alexande

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.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea

We have, in fact, 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, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness".