Morality Quotes - Page 5

• The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

  James Anthony Froude

  Virtue

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• Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Earth, Fame

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.297, Penguin

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• Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

  Hugo Ball

  Ethics, Ethical, Predicaments

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• Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

  James Anthony Froude

  Intellectual, Alive, Difficulty

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.353, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

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• A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, World, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.34

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• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Individuality, Individual Morality

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

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• Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

  Adrian Cadbury

  Decision, Ethics, Ethical

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• Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Art, Virtue, Divided

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• In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

  Jules Renard

  Art, Moral

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Action, Opium

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• La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Morale, Eloquence

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• Morality is a private and costly luxury.

  Henry Adams

  Luxury, Ethics, Privacy

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22

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• Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ordinary, Thelema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Political, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, Religion, Traits

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• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Political, May

  Speech, Nashville, Tenn., 27 Dec. 1962

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Passion, Perfection

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.484, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Preparation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, Successful, Motherhood

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• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Women, Easier

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Garden, Literature

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Men, Suffering

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• He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

  John Selden

  Dog, Hurt, Play

  John Selden (1800). “The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State”, p.75

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