Morals Quotes

“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Snowman

“The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.”
― - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.”
― Honor Raconteur, Jaunten

“Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.”
― Edward Gorey

“Innocence could be lost more than once after all.”
― Selena Kitt, Confession

“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible?

If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”
― Garth Nix, Shade's Children

“I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?"
"You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.”
― Cecily White, Prophecy Girl

“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.”
― Abigail Landsbrook

“It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head.”
― Pavan Choudary, How A Good Person Can Really Win

“It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”
― Glenn Beck, Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?
The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.”
― Jean Jaques Rousseau

“Customs, morals--is there a difference?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.”
― Felix Adler

“Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.”
― Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

“Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.”
― Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time: A Philosopher's Analysis of Morality, God, Evil, and the Holocaust

“Stealing is wrong Billy”
― David Chuka, Billy and Monster: The Superhero with Fart Powers

“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“God could learn a little about love and morality from us. If there’s anyone who needs redemption, it’s God.”
― Logan Kain, The Dead Will Rise First

“A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it should prescribe only those actions whose mere fulfillment, from whatever motive, the state adjudges to be conducive to welfare. What actions are these? Obviously such actions as promote the physical and social conditions requisite for the expression and development of free—or moral—personality.... Law does not and cannot cover all the ground of morality. To turn all moral obligations into legal obligations would be to destroy morality. Happily it is impossible. No code of law can envisage the myriad changing situations that determine moral obligations. Moreover, there must be one legal code for all, but moral codes vary as much as the individual characters of which they are the expression. To legislate against the moral codes of one’s fellows is a very grave act, requiring for its justification the most indubitable and universally admitted of social gains, for it is to steal their moral codes, to suppress their characters.”
― R.M. MacIver 1882 1970 Scottish sociologist educator. The Modern State ch. 5 Oxford University Press

“My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.”
― Heather Paxson, Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (California Studies in Food and Culture)

“What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.”
― Ava Zavora, Forever Elude Me