Top 99 Morals Morality Quotes
#2. Man's life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man - for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.
Ayn Rand
#3. Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.
Donald L. Hicks
#4. We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.
Edward Snowden
#5. Morality - like velocity - is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.
David Gerrold
#6. The anti-mind is the anti-life.
Ayn Rand
#7. When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise.
Mohammad Rafiq Teli
#8. Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
#9. Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.
David Hume
#10. To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.
T.K. Naliaka
#11. To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.
Bryant McGill
#13. There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#14. God could learn a little about love and morality from us. If there's anyone who needs redemption, it's God.
Logan Kain
#15. Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
Russell Brand
#16. The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
James Martineau
#17. Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [ ... ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
Richard Dawkins
#18. Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.
Jeffrey Tucker
#19. There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.
William S. Burroughs
#21. You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ...
Steven J. Carroll
#22. Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. Cochet M.
#23. It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
Ashly Lorenzana
#24. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#25. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
Ayn Rand
#26. Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.
Glenn Beck
#27. Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#28. In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from losing ourselves to our situations.
Trenton Quinn
#29. There was no right or wrong during war. The setting sun made me realize that the ones who would live to see a new day would be the ones who are victorious. As with all the history of this world, the ones who won were always right.
Shayne Colaco
#30. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#31. You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it's okay to steal a loaf to feed them?
A.J. Darkholme
#32. What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by the same token, no such thing as a purely private morality, for the morals of private citizens are public in effect, and are increasingly so.
Wendell Berry
#33. Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.
Cassandra Clare
#34. The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
E.B. White
#35. What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.
Roy T. Bennett
#36. The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.
Brandon Sanderson
#37. To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.
Auberon Herbert
#38. What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
Karl R. Popper
#39. Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
Michele Bachmann
#40. To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
Ayn Rand
#41. Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
Ayn Rand
#42. In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Mark Twain
#43. People never fully confront their wrongdoing. They are all trying to push for their own ends, and they lack the strength to truly apologise for that. In my heart of hearts, I wondered if I was just the same.
Guy Mankowski
#44. There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value.
All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.
Ayn Rand
#45. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
Ayn Rand
#46. Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt.
Jennifer Crusie
#47. Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
Manu Joseph
#48. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#49. In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.
Jules Renard
#50. While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.
C.S. Lewis
#51. With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#53. Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors - God.
Lex Allen
#54. I don't know what London's coming to - the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
Noel Coward
#55. Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
Ayn Rand
#57. It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.
T.F. Hodge
#59. The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round.
James S.A. Corey
#60. Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.
A.J. Darkholme
#61. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.
Franz Werfel
#62. Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.
Donald L. Hicks
#63. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Al-Ma'arri
#64. Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
Laurence Sterne
#65. Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Robert A. Heinlein
#66. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.
Ayn Rand
#67. You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.
A.J. Darkholme
#68. The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.
J. Budziszewski
#69. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#70. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Ayn Rand
#71. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#72. She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.
Thomas Hardy
#74. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#75. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
Luke Myer
#76. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#77. Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.
S.E. Hinton
#79. We can't crush evil with morals. We are justice. We are morality.
Sui Ishida
#80. If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#81. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker
#82. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.
Steven J. Carroll
#83. Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.
Billy Graham
#85. There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
Donita K. Paul
#86. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
Selena Kitt
#87. Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
Annie Besant
#88. Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
Ashly Lorenzana
#89. Art and morality are, with certain provisos ... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
Iris Murdoch
#90. Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
#91. I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.
Steven Pinker
#92. Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
William Wilberforce
#93. There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.
Richard Dawkins
#95. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Ayn Rand
#96. Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Khushwant Singh
#97. Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
Penn Jillette
#98. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
Ayn Rand
#99. If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?
A.J. Darkholme
