An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle.

Mahatma Ghandi

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is 'What do you like?' Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G. K. Chesterton

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Norma Shearer

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Lincoln Steffens

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods.

Irving Kristol

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

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

Albert Bandura

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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

Alex Carey

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Charlotte Bronte

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Ayn Rand

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Grover Cleveland

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike.

Peter F. Drucker

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and invigoration.

Gretel Ehrlich

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Imannuel Kant

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Jay Sekulow

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Cal Thomas

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Dr. William H. Masters

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Archibald Alexander

You can't legislate morality.

Jesse Ventura

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Byron R. White

Too much morality, too little sense.

Four Weddings And A Funeral

It's basically a morality tale. It's all about morals and values. It just happens to be done topless.

Gina Gershon

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

James A. Froude

My contention is evolution kills people. It's not that evolutionists don't have morality, it's that evolution can offer no morality. Ideas have consequences. If you believe you came from slime there is no reason not to, if you can, get away with anything.

Bill Jack

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

George Whitefield

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Roy Hattersley

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William Bennett

His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.

Paul éluard

There is no fair or effective way to categorize one's values or morality.

Vivi Widyawati

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

John Cory

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins

It takes away from the credibility of the argument that the U.S. is in favor of a free Internet. It's a question of morality -- [and] we should not discriminate.

Martin Selmayr

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Judith Martin

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis De Tocqueville

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

Ambrose Bierce

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Jane Rule

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Phil Ochs

Photons have neither morality nor visas.

David Farber

The main issue for me would be the policies of morality as opposed to economics.

Joel Miller

There are different rules in entertainment regarding morality and responsibility in speech.

Mike Paul

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Douglas Laycock

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Jeff Koons

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Roland Allen

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Jack Kemp

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

E. M. Forster

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Remy De Gourmont

You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.

James Greenwood

In the last decade, there's been a lot more public dialogue about the efficacy and morality of the death penalty. And that has made it easier for governors, when appropriate, to decide to commute a sentence.

Mark Lubbers

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Karl Rahner

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Lord Shawcross

There is no connection between morality and disaster, Are we going to think that they deserved that? That would be atrocious.

Huston Smith

We could be accused of being insensitive, but we think there's more to life than a bank account, ... Morality is an issue, and if you look at it critically, you'll see it is more than just dollar signs.

William Perkins

At the end of the day a trial like this is a morality play. It is not just what happened, and who said what to whom, but who is an honest person.

Mark Zauderer

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

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

Leon Blum

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim

It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home.

Edward Said