Morality Quotes
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Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
Miguel de Unamuno
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It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
William Morris
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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”
Alain de Benoist
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Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.
Ernest Renan
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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
Walt Whitman
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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
Blaise Pascal
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Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.
Ruth Gordon
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The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.
Carlo Levi
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I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.
John Stuart Mill
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
William Penn
