Morality Quotes

"The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same."

"Condemnation campaigns can and do work, even in conditions where one thinks there are no morals left."

"We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"

Seneca

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

Leo Tolstoy

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."

"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

Cicero

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

Hannah Arendt

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."

Daniel O'Connell

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

Immanuel Kant

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

Matthew Arnold

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

H. L. Mencken

“Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.”

“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”

“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”

“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.”

“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.”

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“There is nothing good or evil save in the will.”